Chapter 1070: East Becomes West (63)
"Naturally, I want to go, but not now!" For Li Ru, there are too many things in the Han State that he can't understand, for example, in the academic dispute, in his opinion, the academic battle is especially better than the struggle between countries, and there is not a small amount of blood shed during this period, such as in the Qin State, this is the case, in the past few decades, in order to unify the domestic academic school, King Wulie of Qin killed a lot of academics who opposed Li Ru, until there is no one in the country to compete with Li Ru.
But on the contrary, in the Han Kingdom, although Gao Yuan took Jiang Jiaquan's academics as the governing technique, he did not prohibit the development of other schools, and even brought many leaders of other academic schools to give lectures in Jicheng Comprehensive University, and held debates between schools in Jicheng Comprehensive University from time to time, and Jiang Jiaquan, as the chief councilor of the Han Kingdom, also attended this kind of debate many times and debated with his opponents. In the words of Gao Yuan, the king of the Han Kingdom, that is, the ruler is long, the inch is short, and there is competition to make progress.
A single flower is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring. This is Gao Yuan's summary of this situation in which various schools of thought are competing for each other.
Li Ru once thought that the Han Dynasty would cause some internal instability because of this, but the reality was quite the opposite.
"Well, when Da Qin is not there, I believe everyone Li will be very interested in going there to have a look." Gao Yuan said with a smile.
"I'm afraid I won't live to that time!" Li Ru laughed. His Royal Highness the King of Han, you have gained enough, the land of Han has been returned to you, and the Wei Kingdom has also been taken by you, Your Highness, if you want too much, it is very likely that you will not be able to eat and will hold on."
"The land of Han was given to the State of Chu by you, so we were snatched from the hands of the Chu people, and the State of Wei was originally ours, everyone Li, do you want to give us our own things as compensation? That's too unkind, isn't it? I have no doubt that when I present this condition of yours to the Great Council, they will not hesitate to make the decision to go to war."
"And what do you want?" Li Ru said angrily.
Looking at Li Ru, Gao Yuanxin said that this academic master is really not a suitable candidate for negotiation.
"For us, land is not an issue, I am big enough." Gao Yuan's face also became grim, "But this time, the Qin State took the initiative to provoke and use force against my Han Dynasty, causing huge losses to my Han Kingdom, when Lu Chao was leaving, he burned it down in Yuyang and robbed it of the two strategies, I think everyone Li has also heard of it, hundreds of thousands of people in Yuyang are now homeless and have no food to eat, don't you need compensation?"
"This is the price of war, and it is also an appendage of war, and from ancient times to the present, there has been no compensation for this." LI Rudao.
"There was no in the past, it doesn't mean that xiàn can't have it, there was no Han Kingdom in the past, but now there is." Gao Yuan leaned forward, maintaining pressure on Li Ru, "Our request is a war indemnity of 10 million taels of silver."
"Ten million taels, are you crazy poor?" Hearing this number, Li Ru was stunned.
"I'm poor, but I'm not crazy!" Gao Yuan sat back, "I think, now there is only a large amount of silver taels, which can calm the anger of our Great Council, because now they are restless for silver, in Jishi County, we have suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and a large number of fertile fields that are about to be harvested have been destroyed, and in Yuyang, we will not only have no harvest, but also need a large amount of silver taels to rebuild our homes, and Wei State, Han Di, Li family, these places have also been ruined by your Qin people, with all due respect, you Qin people seem to be more suitable for destruction, And never known construction, the amount I have proposed, which we have carefully calculated, can barely restore these places to the pre-war level. Would you like to take a look at the budget plan made by our household department, which is a real deal." Gao Yuan beckoned, and He Weiyuan on the side stepped forward and placed a thick stack of booklets in front of Li Ru.
"But we have far outnumbered you in casualties in Jishi County, and the 150,000 army is gone." LI Rudao.
"Because you started the war, you must bear such pain!" Gao Yuan said coldly: "I have no obligation to consider the casualties of your Qin State, as the victor, I will only consider the problems of my country, as for how you want to deal with domestic affairs, that is your business."
"We can't take it out!" Li Ru suppressed his anger, "This amount, no country can come up with, you are trying to force us to fight you to the death. Would it be better to have broken jade than to be complete?"
Gao Yuan laughed, "Qin Guo's family background for hundreds of years, can't even take out this amount, Li everyone, it seems that your statecraft is very problematic!"
"It's true that our Great Qin can't come up with so much money, but we don't owe money either!" Li Ru said coldly: "How much do you owe your big man?" Is there any silver left in the treasury?"
Gao Yuan spread his hands, "Sometimes, it's also a skill to be able to borrow money!" If it weren't for the war you provoked, I believe that my big man, in a few years, would be able to easily come up with 10 million taels of silver, all because of the hateful war, Li everyone, since you dare to provoke a war, then you must bear all the consequences. Would you rather be a broken jade than a complete tile? Haha, now, I'm afraid that your piece of jade will really break, but my piece of tile will be fine."
"We can't take it out!" Li Ru was dumbfounded by the threat of Gao Yuan, the current Great Qin really can't withstand the war, King Wulie of Qin can't survive for a few days, and the new king is on the throne, without a few years of hard work, it is difficult to straighten out domestic affairs.
"Can the number be less?"
"Okay, then five million taels, a fixed price!" Gao Yuan was more refreshing than Li Ru imagined, and the price reduction was so fast that Li Ru was even more dumbfounded.
"Of course, if there is less silver, there will be other ways to compensate for it. Do you say?" Gao Yuandao.
"What kind of compensation do you need?" Li Ru asked.
"First of all, the Qin State allows our Han merchants to trade with the Qin State without any restrictions, and the Qin people are not allowed to collect taxes from them, and they must provide security guarantees." Gao Yuandao.
"That's fine!" Li Ru agreed.
Gao Yuan snickered in his heart, Li Ru's negotiation object is really pleasant, he doesn't understand what is hidden here, because the Han State strongly inhibits the annexation of land, adopts policies such as state redemption, buys back land from the landlords and then sells it to the landless people at a low price, which makes the original landlord class have a lot of cash in their hands, in order to make these dead money into living money, the landlords can only put money into business, a large amount of silver money poured in, so that business develops by leaps and bounds, and strong competition, It also made the business owners try their best to reduce the cost of goods, and what made Gao Yuan happy was that these business owners began to start the development of new technologies, and in terms of production, they also made strange moves to reduce costs. For example, the theory of cost control, for example, the emergence of the assembly line, and in Jicheng Comprehensive University, there are businessmen who pay for the students and teachers there to specialize in how to control costs and obtain profits.
The real purpose is to let a large number of low-cost goods from the Han State pour into the Qin State, so as to deal a devastating blow to the local industries of the Qin State.
This would bankrupt a large number of small family businessmen in the Qin state, thus dealing a devastating blow to the Qin economy. Let the Qin state fall into greater difficulties step by step above the economy.
Of course, it is impossible for a person like Li Ru to understand the hidden traps and the great malice here.
"Second, Shannan County will definitely not be returned to us, but Daijun is something we must get back." Gao Yuanzheng color channel.
"As far as I know, Dai County has now been returned to Zhao by our country." Li Ru shook his head and said, "We can't return it to you."
"What you gave is not Zhao Guo, but Zhao Qi, we will take it back ourselves, but Qin Guo must not intervene."
"If you want us to agree to this request, then we must also ask His Royal Highness the King of Han to agree to a request, that is, Zhao's internal affairs, and neither you nor I can intervene." LI Rudao.
"No problem at all! Let them take care of their own business!" Gao Yuan laughed, "I think Zhao Guo's preservation will make both of us feel more secure, won't it?"
"Is there any other condition for His Royal Highness the King of Han?"
"Absolutely!" Gao Yuan said: "In addition to signing a peace agreement, I think it is necessary to sign another alliance agreement, that is, the Han and Qin alliances, and the reason why we form an alliance is because we have a common enemy, that is, the state of Chu. We ask the State of Qin to launch an attack on the State of Chu in the shortest possible time."
"Now we don't have the strength to start another war against any country, and His Royal Highness the King of Han should be well aware of this." Li Ru said angrily.
"Or you just need to make a gesture, but I don't think Zhou Yu thinks so!" Gao Yuan smiled: "Of course, if you really attack like the Chu people, how much you grab, it's all yours. What we grabbed, that's ours, how? I think you will definitely be interested in this, and the Chu people are even less capable of dealing with the attacks on him from both of us."
Li Ru pondered for a while, "Okay, we agreed, but His Royal Highness the King of Han also understands our current situation, and when to send troops, I can't say for sure."
"This is self-serving!" Gao Yuan laughed, "That's all our conditions, everyone Li, if there is no problem, I think we have reached an agreement." (To be continued......)