Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

"Is this an evil recipe?"

The ministers followed the news and found that it was Fan Zheng who spoke out against it.

All the officials in the court couldn't help but have strange expressions. It had always been Fan Zheng who offered advice, and the officials angrily denounced his method as evil. But now it was the other way around, with Fan Zheng angrily denounced Cai Jing's method as evil.

Such a strange scene made all the ministers sigh with emotion.

"Evil recipe?"

When Cai Jing heard this, a look of anger suddenly appeared on his face, and then he concealed it.

"It is Cai's honor to be considered as an evil prescription by the evil doctor Fan Zheng. It proves that this prescription is a feasible strategy." Cai Jing laughed loudly.

Cai Jing's thoughts were extremely deep and he took advantage of the situation to act.

The other ministers also suppressed their smiles and nodded.

Fan Zheng looked at Cai Jing, shook his head and said: "Yes, this method is indeed feasible, but it is just a game of beating drums and passing flowers. This year, the imperial court can indeed issue 7 million guan, and next year it can issue 10 million guan of national bonds. In the future, 3,000 guan will be issued." It is not impossible to have national debts of ten thousand, fifty million, or even tens of millions. In this case, the high interest rates will completely crush the Song Dynasty's finances, until one day the court cannot even pay the interest, and it will completely explode."

"Thunder?" Zhao Xu frowned.

"It's like a thunderbolt. Once it explodes, it's hard for gods to save it!" Fan Zheng sneered.

The reason why later generations dare to play the national debt game is because the paper money of later generations can continuously promote inflation to offset the increasing national debt.

The Song Dynasty is a physical currency and cannot use this trick at all. Once it is in debt, it will definitely cause an extremely serious burden. With the huge expenditure of the Song Dynasty, once it falls into it, it will be difficult to get out of it.

"what!"

Zhao Xu was suddenly pleasantly surprised and felt cold all of a sudden. If this method was really implemented, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty would fall into a vicious cycle from then on until it was finally dragged down by the national debt. By then, the Song Dynasty would collapse without any attack.

"National debt can only be used for temporary relief. Officials must not regard national debt as the capital of the country. Private lenders have been ruined and died everywhere. Why did the imperial court implement the Green Seed Law when the people were suffering? We in the Song Dynasty must not repeat the same mistake." Su Song suggested. .

Everyone in the old party also agreed. Everyone knows that life with debt is not easy. In addition, the court borrowed a debt of 5 million yuan. According to the minimum debt of 3%, that is a full 150,000 yuan. Guan, if the debt is 50 million guan in the future, it will be a full 1.5 million guan, which is much more than the annual coins of Liao and Xia.

The Song Dynasty finally got rid of the two countries' annual coins, so naturally it could not fall into it again.

"Since Fan Taicheng thinks this strategy is evil, does he have any other suggestions?" Cai Jing snorted coldly.

He naturally understood Zhao Xu's ambitions. The Song Dynasty managed to suppress Liao Xia with sufficient funds. Seeing that the Song Dynasty had the advantage and it was not an illusion to dominate the world in one fell swoop, the officials would never give up on the path of national debt.

Even if he knew that this was an evil recipe, Zhao Xu would continue to implement it, just like he did not hesitate to adopt Fan Zheng's evil recipe before.

Zhao Xu paused in his heart and immediately looked at Fan Zheng.

He really couldn't see the good situation ruined. If Fan Zheng didn't have a good strategy, he would adopt Cai Jing's method and use massive national debts to strengthen the national power of the Song Dynasty. As long as he defeated the Liao and Xia countries and saved a lot of military expenses, naturally Have the ability to repay the national debt.

Fan Zheng naturally understood Zhao Xu's plan, and sighed helplessly: "Treasury bonds can naturally be used in this way, but the premise is that the Song Dynasty can obtain greater returns by using national debts. If the Song Dynasty wants to continue to issue national debts, it must have a steady stream of We must have sufficient financial resources to repay the national debt, otherwise we will only sink deeper and deeper.”

"A steady stream of money!" Zhao Xu couldn't help but sigh.

The Song Dynasty had always been poor and weak, with redundant soldiers, redundant officials and excessive expenses. The summer and autumn taxes could only maintain the normal expenditure of the court. The successive wars in the Song Dynasty were all supported by these five million treasury bonds. If more treasury bonds are really issued, it can indeed solve the urgent needs, but there will be more money to be repaid in the future.

The court suddenly fell into a dilemma.

"How can we increase financial resources and continue to tax the people?" Cai Jing sneered.

Fan Zheng said proudly: "There are countless stubborn diseases in the world, as long as the source of the disease is found, they can be solved. The current problem of the national debt of the Song Dynasty is the lack of wealth, and who is the best at making money in the world?"

"Businessman?" Zhang Dun frowned.

Fan Zheng nodded and said, "That's right! Doctors can only treat diseases and save people, but they are also not good at managing money. Now that doctors are prosperous, they cannot do without money, and the drug dealer Fan Sanming takes the greatest credit."

Fan Sanming was the first to cooperate with doctors, controlling their purchase of medicinal materials and sales of patent medicines, earning the doctors a steady stream of money. Without Fan Sanming, the doctors would never be where they are today.

"Doctors are just non-governmental organizations. This is an important place in the court. How can we accommodate businessmen?" Zhang Dun shouted coldly.

"There is no business without treachery! Businessmen are only interested in profit and forget their righteousness. In years of disaster, merchants hoard and make huge fortunes. This is the cancer of the country." Lu Dafang also scolded angrily.

Suddenly, the old and new parties unanimously criticized the businessmen verbally and verbally.

There are four peoples in the world: scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Businessmen have been a lowly profession since ancient times and have been suppressed by all dynasties. As a high-ranking scholar-bureaucrat, they naturally look down on businessmen.

Even Zhao Xu frowned, obviously very disgusted with the businessman.

Fan Zheng saw the excitement in the court and said calmly: "What you guys said is correct. Businessmen do have many shortcomings, but their ability to make money cannot be denied. What the Song Dynasty needs most right now is money."

All the officials in the court couldn't help but hesitate, because what Fan Zheng said was the lifeblood of the court.

Cai Jing snorted coldly: "Fan Taicheng, when you were a doctor, there was nothing wrong with you being with the merchants. However, now that you are an official in the court, you are deeply entangled with the merchants. What are your intentions?"

Fan Zheng angrily denounced his national debt method as an evil method. Could it be that his proposal to reuse businessmen was not an evil method?

Fan Zheng retorted: "What Mr. Cai said is true. Fan is an official in the court and also a doctor. In the eyes of doctors, even poisons are useful, let alone businessmen who have mixed reviews. As long as the court uses the businessmen properly." , not only do you not have to worry about harming the Song Dynasty, but you can also obtain a steady stream of financial resources for the Song Dynasty. The issuance of national bonds at that time will be enough to make the Song Dynasty no longer worry about wealth, so that the official career will no longer be hindered. "

"I wonder where Lord Fan is going?"

Zhao Xu's breath froze and he looked at Fan Zheng with hot eyes.

As Cai Jing expected, Zhao Xu had already obtained huge benefits from the five million national debt, so he was naturally unwilling to stop there. If what Fan Zheng said was true, he would not mind giving the businessman a chance.

"This place is called Diversion of Disaster to the East and Opening up the Maritime Silk Road!" Fan Zheng said with a confident smile.