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"Indeed."

"Is it okay for the imperial court to pay money and go to Jin Kingdom to buy goods?"

"Okay, but..."

Hu Quan realized it immediately.

Where does the imperial court get the money when they go to the Kingdom of Jin to buy things with the banknotes?

The imperial court can print money directly to buy things in the Kingdom of Jin!

The cost of printing money is very low. For example, if the imperial court prints 10 guan to buy 1000 sheep, the cost of 10 guan banknotes is at most 100 guan?

Add 300 guan for shipping?

It is equivalent to spending 300 pens to buy 1000 sheep.

Then, he changed hands and sold 2 sheep for 1000 guan in the Song Dynasty, and the court made 17000 guan!

And the price of sheep has also dropped to 20 per piece.

It seems that Jin Guo earned 10 guan, but in fact it was Da Song who made the real money!

"But..." Hu Quan asked suspiciously, "If the Kingdom of Jin inflows a lot of money, wouldn't it be rich to recruit troops and manufacture armaments..."

As soon as he said this, he felt that he was wrong again.

Even if the 10 banknotes do not flow into the country of Jin, the country of Jin still has the assets of 1000 sheep, which can be exchanged for the currency of the country of Jin in the country of Jin.

Zhao Ning said meaningfully: "Remember, currency is just a tool, not wealth."

Hu Quan was shocked and murmured: "Money is just a tool, not wealth..."

Zhao Ning continued: "If the imperial court concentrates on buying goods from the Kingdom of Jin in large quantities at high prices, the number of banknotes in the Kingdom of Jin will skyrocket, and the value of the banknotes in the Kingdom of Jin will inevitably depreciate."

Hu Quan suddenly came to his senses.

There will be two results when the banknotes are devalued in the Kingdom of Jin:

[-]. Prices within the Kingdom of Jin skyrocketed, and people's livelihood collapsed.

Second, the people of the Kingdom of Jin frantically ran to Da Song to buy goods with handed over banknotes, and Da Song reversed and sold the goods at high prices to earn money from the Kingdom of Jin.

After the imperial court mastered the right to distribute currency, it printed money directly to buy things.

This is fucking stealing!

Hu Quan immediately admired Zhao Guan's family.

They only knew that Zhao Guanjia's promotion of banknote delivery was to solve the outflow of copper coins and taxation standards, but they did not continue to think further.

Zhao Guan's family is going to play a big game of chess!

Zhao Ning said with a smile: "The same strategy can be used against Xixia, Dali, Japan, and the Western Regions."

Hu Quan was stunned, and it took a while to recover from the shock.

Hearing what officials said today, Hu Quan only felt that a door to a new world had been opened.

In fact, Hu Quan still doesn't know how terrifying it will be once the banknote delivery is implemented.

For example, the court of the Song Dynasty printed money to buy salt from salt dealers in the Kingdom of Jin at a high price, and the bid was 10 times higher than that in the Kingdom of Jin!

There must be a lot of people smuggling salt over here. Once this happens, there will be a shortage of salt in the Kingdom of Jin, and the price will inevitably skyrocket.

And the so-called 10 times the money paid by the Song court to buy salt, the money used was all printed in the money printing machine.

This can completely trigger the domestic economic crisis of the country of Jin and destroy the economy of the country of Jin.

In the same way, anyone around who is disobedient will use this rogue method to rob the other party.

The purchased goods are resold in the home country.

Of course, this kind of currency game must be backed by strong force.

Otherwise, if you play with Jin Guo like this, Jin Guo will directly flip the table and fight!

Zhao Ning continued: "I recruited you back because I want you to go to Shaanxi and be in charge of Shaanxi Sixth Road Bank."

Hu Quan quickly said: "How can my minister He De..."

"You have been in charge of the newspaper office, and you have also assisted in the promotion of banknote delivery in Qingyuan Mansion. You have experience in public opinion, currency, and border trade. In addition, you were in charge of the new agricultural policy in the Agricultural Policy Department before, and you also have official experience. You are the most suitable .”

"But I'm afraid I don't have enough qualifications."

Responsible for Liulu Bank, this level is probably equivalent to the level of Liubu Shangshu.

"When did my employer check the qualifications? Or, you don't want to?"

"I don't dare. Your Majesty entrusts me with a heavy responsibility. It's too late for me to be happy. I'm afraid that I don't have enough qualifications..."

"Since you are willing, then this matter is settled. You can start from Jingzhao Mansion first."

"Yes, thanks to His Majesty's great entrustment, I will never hesitate to die!"

The war of force is to destroy Xixia. After the destruction, how to make Xixia completely become a part of the Song Dynasty, and even the Western Regions become a part of the Song Dynasty?

Military garrison, cultural infiltration, economic ties, currency connection!

These are the top-level strategies of the country, and these are what Zhao Ning should think about.

As for how to make Jin Guo and Xixia willing to accept the handover, that is what Zhao Ding, Wang Zonglian, and Hu Quan should think about.

Hu Quan is a talent, he grows up fast, practical and capable, more opportunities should be given to such young people.

After talking about his imagination with Hu Quan, Zhao Ning ran to take a rest for a while.

Until the afternoon, I suddenly received the letter of credence from Xixia.

Zhao Ning ran to the Chuigong Hall, summoned the ministers, and met the Xixia envoy.

After the Xixia envoy finished reading the letter of credence, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty was immediately angry.

Cai Mao couldn't help coming out and scolding: "Despicable and shameless! My Great Song cherishes your poverty, and I can't bear your small country and few people to freeze to death in the wilderness, so I will be king and allow you to trade in Huizhou. Fortunately, you have planned a little trick by yourself. Blame it on me, Da Song, I have no sense of shame!"

"Do you think my Da Song is a fool?" Xu Han also jumped out, "If you want to start a war, you send people pretending to be my Song people to rob your businessmen? You don't look in the mirror, my Da Song is rich all over the world, you take Is something worth grabbing for us?"

The Xixia envoy never thought that all the courtiers of the Song Dynasty were sharp-tongued and fiercely indignant.

He said angrily: "Your country is a kingdom of the heavens, and you should be rude first!"

Gao Qiu, the dog-legged member of the Zhao family, came out and said, "Fart! If you say you're being rude, you're being rude? Tomorrow, I'll have someone pretend to be a party member outside Tokyo and cut me off as the richest man in Tokyo. Will you hand it over to someone?"

The Xixia envoy was furious: "You...you people..."

Zhao Ning, who had been silent all this time, suddenly burst out laughing, and he said: "Li Qianshun is also a hero of the generation, but he was overwhelmed by petty gains and dared to make his own claims. Go back and tell him that I have deployed millions of soldiers to fight against him." Never die!"

Chapter 372 Chasing down the Xixia Army (Part [-])

The Xixia envoy originally used the Huizhou incident to question the teacher. After all, he had the evidence that "the Song Dynasty acted first" and thought he was justified.

Unexpectedly, the attitude of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty was so tough.

The envoy said angrily: "I have heard for a long time that the Celestial Dynasty is a state of etiquette. Instead of apologizing for the interception of our business travelers, they humiliated our Great Xia envoy. Is this the ritual system of the Celestial Dynasty?"

"Messenger, you talk too much." Zhao Ning became a little impatient, "I have already said, you go back and tell Li Qianshun to prepare an army, and Song Xia will never die!"

"Your Majesty, the emissary originally came to ask His Majesty to give me an explanation for Da Xia, not to declare war."

The emissary pretended to be tough on the surface, but he was very scared in his heart.

Before he went on a mission, Li Qianshun repeatedly explained that when negotiating with the Song Dynasty, he must be careful not to anger the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and let everyone have face at the table in case Xixia blackmailed the Song Dynasty after the war.

From this point, it is more certain that Li Qianshun is using psychological tactics: The reason why I took the initiative to send troops is because you killed my people, but I don't intend to provoke you and let you die with me.

But Zhao Ning didn't accept this. He smiled at Gao Qiu, "He said he didn't come to declare war? Their army has already crossed the Yellow River and entered our Song Dynasty! But he said he didn't come to declare war?"

"Come on, fork this person out!"

Si Banzhi in front of the hall outside the hall immediately walked in and beat up the Xixia envoy.

The envoy shouted: "Your Majesty, it was your people who made the first move. We need an explanation!"

"I have already given you an explanation!" Zhao Ning's face suddenly darkened, and he said angrily, "Isn't Li Qianshun going to beat him! Then let him beat him enough! I will accompany you to the end!"

None of the courtiers dared to speak.

The envoys were thrown outside the palace.

At this time, some ministers also came forward to persuade the emperor not to completely tear up the situation with Xixia, which is not good for anyone, and may end up benefiting the Kingdom of Jin.

But Zhao Guan's family obviously didn't intend to listen to their old-fashioned, smelly and long suggestions, but turned around and left the hall with sleeves thrown.

Just after the Xixia envoys were madly attacked in Tokyo, the situation in the Northwest still underwent major changes.

On the evening of the fifth day of March, Dang Song was having dinner with everyone in Xi'an Prefecture, when the person on duty suddenly rushed over: "Master Dangdu Yu, it seems that a group of Xixia people have come outside!"

"From Xixia?" Dang Song regained his spirits immediately.

"It looks like you're from Xixia!"

Dang Song didn't say anything, and ran to the city with his people.

He suddenly realized, turned around and shouted: "Who can speak party language?"

Several party soldiers came out and said, "I will speak."

This kind of Tibetan soldiers is very common in the Northwest. Some of them are Tubo people, and some are Dangxiang people.

For example, Zhejia, one of the three generals of the Song Dynasty, was actually a member of the party.

When Dang Song arrived at the top of the city, he found that the Xixia people had fled.

Apparently, Li Liangfu also found that something was wrong in Xi'an Prefecture. It was not the Xixia soldiers who defended the city, but the Song army.

Although he couldn't figure out what happened, he still ran quickly.

From the appearance of the Xixia army fleeing in embarrassment, Dang Song immediately realized that this was a defeated army. He said decisively: "Mobilize people and follow me to chase the enemy!"

Xi'an Prefecture immediately mobilized 2000 people to chase them all the way.

Li Liangfu hurried to the Yellow River. If Xi'an Prefecture is still there, he can enter Xi'an Prefecture and immediately mobilize manpower to build boats to cross the Yellow River.

But now that buffer was gone, he was forced to go to the Yellow River, relying on the time won by the horses to build a wooden boat by the Yellow River.

However, Dangsong chased too closely, and everyone in the evening chased after him.

When he saw Li Liangfu building a boat by the Yellow River, Dang Song became even more sure that this group of people had lost the battle and was preparing to cross the river.

The two sides immediately fought in the dark night by the Yellow River.

The morale of Li Liangfu's defeated army was low, and the terrain by the Yellow River was not conducive to the cavalry. After only a few rounds, they were killed by the Song army.

But at this time, finally got a leak-picking boat, Li Liangfu hurriedly boarded the boat, and took a few people across the river.

"Quickly put out the torch!" Li Liangfu shouted.

The torches on the ship were extinguished, and the Song Army's crossbow arrows couldn't aim at them, so they could only shoot randomly, and it was unknown whether they hit.

On the second day, Dang Song asked people to check the corpses of Xixia soldiers at this ferry. Last night, they killed more than 500 people and captured [-] horses!

That Wei Ming was also beheaded last night.

When Li Liangfu went south, the [-]-strong army was fierce, but now only three people escaped across the Yellow River, which was worse than Wanyan Zongfu who fled back then.

In desperation, Li Liangfu had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to Xingqing Mansion.

But he said that the crisis on Xihe Road had been resolved, and Li Yanxian's [-] troops crossed the Yellow River at this time.

Zhuoluo City, which is only across the river from Lanzhou City, is where Xixia Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Division are located.

Wei Ming was also killed by the Yellow River, and at this time Zhuoluo City was empty of defenses.

At noon on the sixth day of March, Zhuoluo City was surrounded by Song troops.

Xixia people have two positive advantages:

[-]. The Xixia people rarely surrendered.

They fight bravely and rarely surrender, which is related to their difficult environment.

[-]. The Xixia people will run away if they can't win. They don't think it is shameful to run, especially the cavalry, if they can't win, they will disperse immediately.

However, after their cavalry dispersed, they would not run far away, but wandered around, quickly looking for organizations and regrouping.

This is because Xixia has a small population. In order to preserve its vitality, it adopts the most flexible strategy when it cannot win.

In fact, this is also one of the important reasons why Xixia can survive between the two superpowers of the world.