Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

As soon as Han Shizhong finished speaking, another voice came from outside: "The imperial decree has arrived."

Han Shizhong and his wife hurried out to receive the order.

After the servant recited the holy decree, Han Shizhong said without changing his expression, "Thank you for your grace, long live my emperor."

This is an imperial decree to confer Liang Hongyu the title of Lady Protector.

He also gave the official robe to the lady protecting the country.

After Han Shizhong entered the room, he said, "Congratulations, beloved."

Liang Hongyu said: "When the officials report their military achievements, they report for the servants' family, and that's why this Lady Protector canonize."

"I didn't expect the officials to confer on you as Madam Protector."

"The officials should not be too happy."

"how do I say this?"

"The official canonized me as Madam Huguo and gave you a mansion. The next step is to bring our mother here."

"What does that mean?"

"Don't you understand?" Liang Hongyu smiled, "The officials want you to concentrate on military affairs in Liaodong."

Han Shizhong scratched his head before reacting.

He didn't say anything, this is the normal operation of the king.

Liang Hongyu's guess can be said to be [-]% correct.

Liaodong and Denglai are separated by the Bohai Sea. Han Shizhong will build a military town there in the future, and the imperial court's control over there is very weak.

It is to give food, and to give people, and to give back the official position of the economic envoy.

Zhao Ning wouldn't be able to sleep if he didn't arrange his family in Tokyo.

That kind of terrain, at least a little selfish, is prone to warlords.

Wasn't Mao Wenlong in the late Ming Dynasty the leader of the warlords there?

Mao Wenlong was also in the Liaodong Peninsula at the beginning, and was later driven to Phi Island, where he developed wretchedly. Tianqi and Chongzhen repeatedly asked him to transfer to the Liaodong Peninsula again, but was repeatedly rejected.

That kind of terrain, across the sea from the Central Plains Dynasty, the only land route was cut off by the enemy.

A general who doesn't want to be a king himself is not a good warlord.

This is human nature. Even if history proves that Han Shizhong is a loyal minister, Zhao Ning will definitely keep it.

And not only Han Shizhong, Hu Yantong and Zhang Rong's family members had to come to Tokyo, so that Zhao Guan's family could sleep.

On the fifth day of April, Yanjing.

"Your Highness, there is the latest news from the secret work in the south, saying that Song Ting is strictly investigating land acquisition and tax evasion in Huaixi."

"Oh, how's it going?"

"A group of officials were arrested, and even Weng Yanguo, the Huaixi transshipment envoy, was imprisoned."

"Official Zhao really dares to do something!" Zong Wang sighed, "Isn't he afraid that someone will rebel in Huaixi?"

Liu Yanzong said: "I heard that he was only arrested, but there is no news about how to deal with it."

"Huaixi..." Zongwang muttered to himself.

Liu Yanzong continued: "It is said that officials from the New Deal faction were sent there, and they encountered great resistance."

Zong Wang didn't say much either, it was just the beginning, and he couldn't comment.

Liu Yanzong began to report: "Your Highness, [-] sheep are ready."

"Very well, let's arrange it. On the border of Zhongshan Prefecture, we will trade with Song people in private. We only accept copper coins, six hundred Wen per catty."

Chapter 274 The Currency War Begins (Second Update)

"Your Highness, is six hundred Wen too cheap?" Liu Yanzong was shocked, "I have inquired about it, and now a catty of mutton in the Song Dynasty has reached nine hundred Wen, and Song people are very happy with mutton."

Zong Wang said: "I have a lot of sheep in my dynasty, and I need copper coins even more. I will sell it for six hundred yuan a catty first. Song people must also have sheep herding. The price is determined according to the actual situation in the market."

In fact, the price of mutton at [-] Wen is already sky-high.

A few decades ago, the mutton family in the Song Dynasty was about 130 Wen per catty.

However, the rise has been huge in recent years, and the Liao Kingdom, which continued to import sheep to the Song Dynasty, perished. People's livelihood in the northern part of the Song Dynasty declined, and mutton naturally rose.

At this price, only the rich can afford it.

But it didn't prevent Zongwang from inhaling copper coins.

He continued: "Furthermore, arrange for a batch of old, weak, sick and disabled horses to be sold to Song Jing."

"The horses have been fully arranged. So far, we have found [-] thin horses, each of which can be sold for a hundred."

This kind of price was definitely not expected to be sold in the past. However, after several years of war between Song and Jin, the Song Dynasty, which was short of horses, was plundered and took away a large number of war horses.

For example, in the first battle to defend Tokyo City, Zongwang took away 20000 top-quality horses from the Royal Stable near Tokyo City.

In Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi, countless war horses were plundered, and almost all the horses raised by folk grooms were also plundered.

So for Da Song now, the price of a horse has risen to a hundred guan, or even more.

Zong Wang said: "Give them fifty guan, and they must receive copper coins."

"Your Highness, Song people are short of horses, we can give them a hundred guan."

Zong Wang said: "Time is the most precious thing. It is necessary to absorb a large amount of copper coins from the border of the Song Dynasty in the shortest time.

"We have to leave enough room for those merchants to make money, so they are more willing to help us resell quickly."

Of course, the [-] sheep were not all sold to the Song Dynasty in one go.

Sell ​​it step by step.

Zongwang's goal in the first stage is to absorb all the copper coins in the state capital in northern Hebei.

Each adult sheep weighs about 100 catties, the bones are shaved off, and only the mutton is counted, about 60 catties, 600 Wen per catty, and a sheep can sell meat for 36000 Wen.

Bones sell for 200 Wen a catty, and a sheep sells bones for 8000 Wen.

A whole sheep can be sold for 44000 Wen, which is 44 strings.

44 sheep can be sold for [-] guan.

3000 horses can be sold for 15.

It adds up to almost 59 guan.

What is this concept?

In the second year of Xuanhe, that is, eight years ago, the Song Dynasty minted 300 million copper coins a year.

After the Chanyuan Alliance, the old coins that the Song Dynasty gave to the Liao Kingdom were only 10 guan a year.

Generally, if the family property exceeds [-] guan, it is a rich man.

So rich in money.

Generally, in some counties in Hebei, it is calculated on the basis of 5 people, and each person circulates an average of 100 Wen coins a day, which is 5000 Guan coins.

There are 5000 coins in a county, which can already ensure the normal trade of the county.

In a slightly larger county, the sum of all the copper coins circulating in the market may not exceed ten thousand guan.

Of course, this is the currency in circulation, and if there is no currency in circulation, it is far more than that.

Most of the money in ancient times was hidden by the landlords, either in their own homes or buried in the ground.

If Zongwang sold all these sheep and horses, it might really cause a large amount of copper money to flow out of many places in Hebei and Hedong.

However, markets are volatile.

The price of mutton may drop, which is another story.

Zongwang emphasized again: "Remember, those ordinary people won't buy it, there's no need to waste time on them, and they don't have copper coins."

"Your Majesty understands that there are special people transporting goods at the border. Don't worry, Your Highness, I can guarantee that some sheep can even be sold to Tokyo."

"Oh?"

"The rich and officials in Hebei and Hedong will buy mutton at this price, but those merchants may be more willing to sell it to Tokyo."

"You're right, I leave this matter to you."

"Yes."

Of course, there are still many goods from the Kingdom of Jin, all of which are on the list going south.

This kind of trade was out of the question before Song and Jin formally negotiated a peace.

But there are a lot of folks doing it.

Whether it is Song Xia or Song Liao, there have been a lot of border smuggling for a hundred years.

Those smugglers bribed border officials and soldiers.

Even the military is involved in smuggling.

Historically, there were a large number of soldiers on the border between Song and Xia secretly engaged in smuggling.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun was the head of the border smuggling business, and he even transported state-owned assets to the border for sale.

It is unrealistic to use the ancient bureaucratic system to strictly investigate smuggling and completely eliminate it.

In any organization, once the number of people increases, the internal efficiency will inevitably be low, and it will be accompanied by corruption, non-working and other stinky problems.

In history, the court of the Song Dynasty explicitly prohibited smuggling because of the outflow of copper coins, but the prohibition continued repeatedly.

Even in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a lot of smuggling among the people.

You must know that commercial transactions will always exist, as long as people have needs, there will be transactions.

As long as there is money to be made, there will be merchants.

Even many ordinary people will participate.

For example, woven shoes and hats will also be sold to earn some living money.

The two countries of Song and Jin did have the hatred of destroying the country, but it was so small that when an individual had no food to eat, he would not think about the demise of the country.

A person lives like an ant, just wanting to eat a bite, nothing more.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to use national righteousness to call on the border not to buy things from the Kingdom of Jin, or to sell things to the Kingdom of Jin.

Besides, when merchants or ordinary people buy it, there is a high probability that they will not know that it is something from the Kingdom of Jin.

Just like when you buy something from the next village or county without a trademark, you don’t know where it is produced, and you don’t care where it is produced!

If Zhao Ning invests a large number of anti-smuggling personnel at the border, these anti-smuggling personnel may not only produce little output, but may even participate in smuggling.

Therefore, blocking is worse than sparse.

Time is running fast.

In a blink of an eye, it was already April [-]th, and the sun was shining on people, making them feel a little hot.

The Huaixi rebellion was originally a trivial matter, but when it spread to the capital, it became a major event.

After all, the nature of this incident is defined as "rebellion", and some officials even think that it may evolve into the scale of Fang La's rebellion back then.

If it really became the size of Fang La back then, the Great Song Dynasty might be over.

At that time, Jin Guo even sent a fart envoy to directly march south.

But Zhao Ning was not worried, Huaixi would definitely not be able to quarrel.

The powerful have their weaknesses.

Now it is to recover taxes, not to implement the New Deal.

The implementation of the New Deal is to kill them, and it is reasonable for them to rebel, but now the tax recovery is just for them to make up for what they missed before.

Which landlord master had a brain twitch and rebelled because he didn't want to pay taxes?

No one can do this kind of operation.

Chapter 275 Da Song Agricultural Experts Are Here ([-]rd update)

As long as the New Deal is not implemented for the time being, the scale of the rebellion will not rise.