[Comprehensive] The five elements are short of money

After a vigorous wedding, everyone has their own views on Hua Guo, a new rising power.Most people have already believed in Huang Jin's theory of recuperating and developing people's livelihood, but there are always some people who don't believe it.

For example, Jia Sidao, who judges others by himself, if he can have such a status, will he give up the possibility of competing in the world?What's more...Jia Sidao played with the copper coins in his hand and fell into deep thought. In the Song Dynasty, copper was expensive and silver was cheap in these years.Many people no longer use copper coins, and simply barter.For big merchants, they would rather go to the trouble of exchanging one shipment of goods for another than accept government coins.

Today’s Song Dynasty still invests less money—huizijiaozi, which is another name for banknotes and banknotes. It is said that Huizi is the most cost-effective because no one in the Song Dynasty cares about the reputation of the government, and they can send as much as they want. The most valuable things are underfoot, and the currency system of the entire Song Dynasty is on the verge of collapse.

Of course, these losses will eventually fall on the poor people, and even those big businessmen will not be affected.Everyone knows that if you want to do business in Song Dynasty, you can't do it without some leader or general standing behind you.Even the government is very proficient at switching roles. When it should be an official, it is an official, and when it should be a bandit, it is a bandit. Collusion between officials and businessmen has long been a practice.

At this time, Jia Sidao still had the desire to save the country and the people. He rubbed the copper coins in his hand. Back then, they used copper coins with high face value and low copper content in the war against gold, and specially stipulated them as border currency, and these copper coins could not be used. enough to exchange.It is equivalent to bargaining on the price of currency, earning the wealth of the golden man silently and interest-free.Later, these methods were discovered, and the trade between Song and Jin became barter, or gold and silver were used directly.

Hearing it and knowing it, the newly established Huaguo now has enough copper to mint coins and enough national credit to maintain the exchange of copper coins. It is not as abrupt as Huaguo popping up. Such a currency system needs to be prepared for at least ten years.Jia Sidao suddenly realized that this person who was ambushing Xixia and passing by under their noses would also be buried under the feet of their Song State?

Jia Sidao was terrified, and decided to make a good investigation, and went back to report to the officials carefully that these germs must be eliminated.

After all, there are few people with advanced vision like Jia Sidao, but there are still people who can reach the same conclusion through other means, such as Wan Yankang.Wan Yankang did not forget what Huang Jin's reason for giving up the capital Dadu was - Huaguo needs to forge ahead.In order to forge ahead with this illusory thing, he would rather lose the best capital city, Wan Yankang does not think that Huang Jin will give up fighting for world hegemony.Inadvertently said words and possible publicity, which one should I believe?Wanyan Kang smiled without saying a word.

Some people can understand it, but naturally more people can't understand it.

Tuo Lei has already returned proudly. Although Huaguo is rich, it is too soft. Tuo Lei thinks that no one is an opponent of Mongolian cavalry.Tuo Lei finds Guo Jing and invites him back to the grassland. His mother is still looking forward to his return in the grassland, and Hua Zheng is also waiting for him.

Guo Jing also had some adventures in the Central Plains, the last time Qiu Chuji asked everyone to solve the mystery of Wanyan Kang's life experience in Wanyan Kang's other courtyard, it really shocked Guo Jing.Hong Qigong was also there at the time, and he admired Guo Jing's straightforwardness very much, thinking that he was as wise as a fool and had a firm and indomitable heart.After testing, he still passed the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to him.

The Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms is one of the iconic martial arts of the Beggars' Gang. Hong Qigong thought he could live for a few more years. If he could find someone who is good at management, he would hand over the dog-beating stick technique to him and pass on the Beggars' Gang. Give it to him; if you can't, you can only pass it to Guo Jing.

As a person who has spent his whole life in the rivers and lakes, to Hong Qigong, sincerity is more important than any qualifications or background.

When Tuo Lei saw Guo Jing again, Guo Jing had already made great progress in martial arts, and he was among the first-class masters in the Jianghu.

The martial arts competition died halfway, and the seven monsters in the south of the Yangtze River were fed up with the desert wind and sand, and decided to retire in their hometown, so they could not accompany Guo Jing back to the grassland.Guo Jing was worried about Li Ping, so naturally he wanted to go back.The Jiangnan Seven Monsters jokingly asked Guo Jing to go and come back quickly, don't let the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River soften his bones, when he comes back, some masters will still arrange a marriage for him, for example, Suo Mu Nianci is good.At this time, everyone seems to have forgotten that Guo Jing still has a fiancée, Hua Zheng. If Guo Jing married a Mongolian "barbarian woman", would his situation be different from that of Yang Kanghe in the past?

Thanks to the fact that Tuo Lei didn't know much Chinese, let alone dialects, otherwise, when he heard the words of the Seven Monsters in the South of the Yangtze River, he couldn't help but let the government exterminate them. The mutton and mare's milk given to them on the grassland back then were not as good as feeding animals.

Everyone seems to have found their own place, and the rivers and lakes have once again returned to calm.

During this peaceful transition period, Huang Jin consolidated the border, trained well-trained soldiers, and reorganized the bureaucratic system; Cheng Yufeng's Tzu Chi Bureau was successfully opened. Voice.Many people moved thousands of miles to Huaguo, just for the low tax and perfect relief system here.

Huang Jin and Cheng Yufeng also had children, taught them to practice literature and martial arts, and let them participate in political affairs.Huang Yaoshi traveled all over the rivers and lakes, but his status as the overlord of Huaguo made him unable to find anyone to talk to except for a few old friends.As time passed, Huang Yaoshi didn't like wandering in the rivers and lakes any more, he still went back to Peach Blossom Island, trained his servants, played the qin and flute, and enjoyed himself.

Huang Jin has signed friendship treaties with Mongolia and Song, and is gloriously independent. No matter what other people fight, as long as they don't fire on his territory, he will ignore it.Mongolia tried a few times, and found that Hua Guo was really frightened, and didn't care about their war with Song State, so they went to war with confidence.It's not that Mongolia hasn't thought about attacking Guo by false ways, but Huang Jin is not a vegetarian. He can ignore the disputes at the door of his house, but he also wants to look good to anyone who dares to break his door.

The policy formulated by Mongolia is to stabilize Huang Jin first, and after conquering Song State, they may be able to take Hua State without bloodshed. After all, their monarch is a "benevolent, kind and good man".At the beginning, some people thought that Huang Jin was pretending, but now after years of practical experience, they found that he is really a saint!The kind with the halo on the head!

With the existence of Huang Jin, Mongolia could not attack the Song Dynasty from Sichuan-Shaanxi, Ezhou, and Xiangyang, and could only concentrate its forces to storm Xiangyang.The State of Song refused to guard the southeast, and took Wuyue as its home, but the most critical area was Jingxiang.As long as Xiangyang is captured and goes down the river, Yangzhou and Luzhou will be self-defeating-the battle of Xiangyang has begun.

To conquer the city, the best option is to encircle the city and cut off all material and personnel exchanges between the city and the outside world when the onslaught attack fails. If you attack day after day, you will be able to conquer it one day.However, Xiangyang can't be surrounded!

Why?The terrain of Xiangyang has been decided!Xiangyang is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on one side. Whether Mongolia is good at water warfare or their cavalry is good at climbing mountains and mountains is neither, so Mongolia cannot form an encirclement circle.I can only watch helplessly as supplies continue to be shipped to Xiangyang, and the situation is so deadlocked.

In the current situation, Huaguo, Dali, and Tubo seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and they all suddenly lost their voices, only watching the decisive battle between Song and Mongolia.It seems that whoever wins, they will surrender the whole country, the situation is strange and quiet.

What broke this silence was Wanyan Congke, the former royal family of the Kingdom of Jin, who defected to Mongolia and made another desperate plan for Mongolia.As for how this old aristocrat who fled in a hurry found the Mongolian Khan, if he really had the ability, why didn't he try his best to turn the tide and save Dajin?Mongolia adopted Wanyan Congke's strategy and launched a six-year confrontation in Xiangyang.

Mongolia's annual military expenditure in Xiangyang accounts for almost half of the entire empire's annual revenue. What does Mongolia do with so much money?Not to bribe the guard Lu Wende, but to do business!

Yes, it was business. Mongolian soldiers became businessmen on the spot.They set up a market without permission, and set up a market outside Xiangyang City. They shipped a large amount of grain, wine, and salt from Mongolia. Most importantly, in these markets, they could use Huizi and Jiaozi to trade.

As I said earlier, within the territory of the Song Dynasty, the credibility of Huizi Jiaozi was already very low, and it was a fluke to be able to exchange half of it.This kind of business in Mongolia is simply giving strategic materials for nothing.Sure enough, the barbarians, Yi and Di, were all fools. The civil servants in the Song Kingdom proudly stroked their beards, turning the Song-Mongolian trade outside Xiangyang City into a vain delivery of strategic materials to Lu Wende.

Mongolia is already so stupid, but Xiangyang defender Lu Wende did not open the door for Mongolia while laughing at them, and even became more vigilant, with more strength to defend the city.

But the strategy Wanyan Congke offered was not aimed at the old fox Lu Wende, he was aimed at those Song businessmen.How many Song people made money in the trading market outside Xiangyang City, combined with the practice of "official business" in the Song Dynasty, if Lu Wende cut off the trading market, he would cut off his colleagues' money.Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Would Lu Wende dare?

He didn't dare, so he let it go, but trained soldiers more clearly and more strictly, hoping to use his sobriety to exchange a glimmer of life for Da Song.

Song people are cunning and extremely shameless.Faced with the business of using clubs and jiaozi to trade, which almost makes half of the net profit for nothing, they all felt that the investment was too low, so they came up with a more profitable way-robbery!

In the beginning, they robbed Mongolian merchants, and later even Song Dynasty merchants also robbed them.Mongolia had no choice but to negotiate with Lu Wende: Song people are too dishonest, Mongolian merchants are often robbed, if this continues, we will stop doing business.

That's not okay!Mongolia stopped doing business, whoever gave money to Lu Wende, who gave money to the officials and merchants of the Song Dynasty.But Lu Wende shamelessly said that he has nothing to do, the bandits have nothing to do with him, he is also a victim, Mongolia should not let him explain.

In the end, the two sides took a step back, and Mongolia proposed to build a temporary earth wall outside Xiangyang City to protect the interests of businessmen on both sides.

After all, Lu Wende is a veteran, he still hesitated, something seemed wrong, although he didn't know what was wrong.But Mongolia didn't give him too much hesitation but time, and a lot of bribes flooded him and his subordinates.Lu Wende is poor, the entire Song Dynasty is not very friendly to the general system, and a large part of the military salary needs to be raised by itself.His subordinates also whispered in his ear every day, "The success of the market is my benefit." The market is the golden hen of our family, so nothing can happen.

After several efforts, Lu Wende agreed, let's fix it!

The Mongolian businessmen finally built two earthen walls outside Xiangyang City in a grand manner. You must know that the reason why Mongolia could not form a siege to Xiangyang was due to geographical reasons on the one hand, and the fact that Xiangyang was open outside the city without shelter, so it was impossible to launch a campaign. massive attack.In this area, not to mention building earthen walls, even building a chicken coop is an illegal building and must be demolished.

After the earth wall is built, you say it is to protect the merchants, and it can protect the merchants. If you want to use it as a stronghold for troops, what can the Song people do?

Only then did Lu Wende realize that he had been fooled, he patted his thigh and said, "I am the one who wronged the court!"

Unfortunately, it's too late~

The author has something to say: It is true that Mongolia used business as an excuse to build earthen walls outside Xiangyang City, and Lu Wende's response is also true.It’s just that the decades in between have disappeared. At this time in the official history, Temujin was dead, Meng Ge died outside Diaoyu City, and it was Kublai Khan who presided over the Battle of Xiangyang.Now... huh, make it up~