"Presumably Mr. is also ridiculous and laughing." Looking at Pei Shiqing, Yang Tong said with a smile.

Pei Shiqing sighed, and said with a look of embarrassment on his face: "I don't know how to speak, but we do encounter difficulties, Luoyang's military rations are about to run out, I would like to ask His Royal Highness to borrow us 100,000 stone grain for the sake of brotherhood and the descendants of Emperor Taizong, and the saint is grateful." ”

Yang Tong sneered in his heart, and said in his heart: I probably heard that I blackmailed Li Yuan, and I wanted to share the cake! But there is no promise, no thing is given, this is a typical insincere tiger borrowing a pig, how can there be such a good thing in this world. Moreover, the Pei family, the Zheng family and other Dashi clans behind Yang Qi are not decorations, and it is impossible for them to run out of money and food so quickly. Yang Qi came here to cry poor, it is estimated that the family gate valve has lost confidence in him and does not want to invest in Yang Qi anymore.

He didn't show his face, and he hung Pei Shiqing's heart to his throat before he said slowly: "I don't have any surplus food, so I don't dare to borrow it." There are three reasons: in the past two years, Jizhou has been unable to make ends meet, and nearly 10 million people have relied on me to feed themselves in the form of work-for-relief, and I have been constantly fighting with foreign countries, and my grain stocks have almost been exhausted; Second, Li Yuan looted the state of merger ruthlessly, and before the battle of the state, Pei Lian, Li Shentong and others forcibly conscripted the people to build defenses, so that the people missed the agricultural time, and millions of people could not hold on to the autumn harvest, which also needs me to support. 3. Goguryeo entered Kouxiangping and Lushun many times, and large-scale wars were about to break out, and this time, Goguryeo and Baekje worked together, and I could not ignore the national interests for the sake of my own selfishness, and this was also the fundamental reason why I did not pursue Li Yuan while he was victorious. ”

Pei Shiqing seemed to understand a little.

In the battle of Bingzhou, Yang Tong's losses and Li Yuan's ratio, almost negligible, Li Yuan in Tongguan, Pujin Pass and other important passes have no troops, if Yang Tong took advantage of the weakness to enter, at least seventy percent sure to enter the Guanzhong, but after he won the Zhou, but decisively stopped the pace of the campaign, for his abnormal move, everyone was puzzled, it turned out that there was a problem in Liaodong, forcing Yang Tong to stop the pace of the campaign. Goguryeo would have chosen the time and actually saved Li Yuan's life.

All of a sudden, Pei Shiqing couldn't speak.

As an orthodox Han Chinese, in terms of national righteousness, he himself appreciates Yang Dong's domineering of foreign races.

"Food, I really can't borrow it!" After Yang Tong emphasized again, he continued: "However, I can support Brother Yan Wang in another way. ”

Pei Shiqing hurriedly asked, "How can Your Highness support you?" ”

"I lack everything here, just no money! I want copper, iron, cloth, silk, wood, livestock, medicinal herbs, pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, as long as you send them to Wen County, Hanoi County, I will buy them all. As a result, Luoyang has prospered in business, increased business taxes, and rolled in money! With money, you can go to Bashu and Jiangnan to buy grain. Yang Tong paused, and then said: "I know that your great family has some special ways, don't tell me that the world is chaotic or anything!" And this is the only thing I can help Brother Yan Wang, for the first time and for the last time. ”

After being silent for a long time, Pei Shiqing said: "Your Highness really wants everything?" ”

"It can't be shoddy!"

"Isn't Your Highness very disgusted with the family gate valve?"

"Business dealings are a normal transaction for each to take what they need and cooperate for a win-win situation. To tell you the truth, I will go to Hedong in two days, one is to deliver prisoners of war, and the other is to discuss business and trade matters with Li Jiancheng! ”

Pei Shiqing was dumbfounded, and he couldn't accept Yang Tong's move to seek skin with the tiger. But the distinction between business and government seems to be correct.

Take what you need.

"I, Pei, can trade with His Highness!" Pei Shiqing didn't know that he was so sorry for Yang Qi, and he didn't know that Yang Tong had copied Luoyang's grain.

However, the family and the scholar family are all big business houses, and in the face of the interests of the family, the interests of the country have to stand aside. What's more, when Yang Tong got the kind and his family got a huge amount of money, Yang Qi also got a huge amount of business taxes, which is a win-win situation for everyone!

Yang Tong smiled, Pei Shiqing's reaction was in his imagination, and said: "I have a lot of money piled up in Shenwu Palace and Liyang Cang, not to mention tens of thousands of hangings, your Pei family can't eat it, and I'm anxious to fight Goguryeo, it's best to mobilize the Kanto family to take it together!" ”

"Whoa!" Pei Shiqing's heart beat pounding when he heard it.

This was an era of the copper standard, and the value of gold and silver was recognized by the world, but mainly as a gift and a precious metal for collection, unlike copper, which served as a monetary value. Tens of thousands of hanging money is definitely an amazing windfall, and Pei Shiqing can't be tempted.

Yang Tong smiled slightly, and negotiated another deal.

His new numismatic policy was just the beginning of the silver standard.

Silver has the function of financial reserves, and was also an important means of international trade payment, China has a long history of understanding and using silver, silver has been made into handicrafts and currency very early, but the time when silver is used as currency is used in large quantities is after the Tang and Song dynasties......

In the Yuan Dynasty, the silver standard was strengthened, and the government took silver as the most important currency, that is, with the emergence of silver ingots and ingots, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the silver standard was consolidated and strengthened, and in the Ming Dynasty, silver money became the official currency.

Once the country is reunified, the people will become richer and richer, the circulation of commodities will become more and more frequent, and there will be more and more large-scale transactions. Gold, on the other hand, is expensive, making up for the low and bulky nature of copper coins, but it is produced in small quantities and cannot become a mainstream currency. If between gold and copper, silver is used as legal tender, which is more appropriate and scientific.

The key is that the family has always regarded gold and pure copper as a means of storing wealth, and does not attach importance to silver in the second place, they think that silver is not as usable as copper and silver, and it is not as valuable as gold, and even if they have silver, there is not much silver.

When silver replaces copper coins and prevails in the world, they will feel miserable and miserable. This is plundering the wealth of the world......

Silver, Yang Tong is not lacking.

In the territory under his control, there are typical silver deposits in Fengning Niuquan and Chengde Guzigou in Baitan County, Lingqiu Zhijia in Yanmen, Ulanqab area east of Khanting in southern Turkic Turkic Republic, and Siping Mountain in Fuyu City in northern Xiangping.

The Sado Gold Mine on Sado Island, which he knew, was a huge gold and silver mine, producing nearly 100 tons of gold and more than 2,500 tons of silver...... Ishimi Silver Mountain, Foot Tail Copper Mountain mining is simple, the ore deposits are extended, almost inexhaustible, dozens of hundreds of years, almost no worries! Hehe, what is the rush to build a water army? Isn't it just to conquer the Japanese and take these treasures?

Feeling that his thoughts were a little distant, Yang Tong straightened his face and said seriously: "I heard that Wang Shichong is very restless? ”

"Wang Shichong does control the military power of the eastern capital Luoyang, but the military rations have always been supplied by the imperial court. Although there are contradictions between the two, they are also for the sake of the overall situation. ”

Pei Shiqing sighed, "The main reason is that Wang Shichong is too greedy, urging the grain tightly, and the grain in Hanjiacang is also exhausted, only Ziwei Palace Taicang still stores 100,000 stone of grain, which is used to help the people's life-saving food, of course, it can't all be given to the army, the army has a misunderstanding of the imperial court." ”

Yang Tong immediately heard two clues, first of all, Wang Shichong still had a lot of grain in his hands, but out of his own self-reliance, he had the idea of saving people's food and money, so Yang Qi refused to give it to him; Secondly, Wang Shichong deliberately withheld military salaries, deliberately said in the army that Yang Qi and important ministers were ruthless and unjust, and aroused the resentment and dissatisfaction of his soldiers against the court and the emperor, so as to prepare for the next step of seizing power.

However, the reaction of Yang Qi's faction is really interesting, he actually wants to control Wang Shichong in terms of military rations, won't Wang Shichong, who is the desire of the army, rob it? Could it be that Wang Shichong would not launch a coup d'état in Luoyang, similar to the Jiangdu Palace Incident?

If he was Yang Qi, he would definitely form an army loyal to him, or ask him Yang Tong to borrow troops, after all, the two brothers have never blushed from beginning to end. But it's impossible to think about it, compared with Wang Shichong, who is restricted, Yang Qi is actually more afraid of him Yang Tong, once Yang Dong's forces enter Luoyang, it will be an authentic wolf into the house. After all, Wang Shichong is a courtier, and he also needs Yang Qi's military food and political support, which is easier to deal with.

Even if Yang Qi wanted to lead him into Luoyang, the family gate valve would not agree, for fear that he would change theirs. If you think about it carefully, Yang Qi, the emperor, is quite helpless, boring, and unsafe.

"The coup d'état in Jiangdu Palace is a profound lesson, don't you have a long memory at all?" Yang Tong stared at Pei Shiqing and said, "The emperor of this year has the final say in the army, and nothing else is of any use." You go back and let Brother Yan Wang form an elite army that belongs to him, listen to me. ”

Yang Yu is young, kind and filial, with Wei Xuan threading the needle, the relationship between the two brothers has always been good, and their orphans and widows have little power, Yang Tong is very happy to accept this grateful brother, and he also respects his grandmother who can afford to let go; But Yang Qi is a different matter, he has been an emperor and has experienced the happiness of imperial power, he is definitely not willing to be a free king, the important thing is that he still has a large number of followers, once these people do not get power, they will naturally encourage Yang Qi to do. If it was a prosperous era, they wouldn't be able to set off the storm at all, but now it is a troubled time, and they don't have the heart or energy to deal with the infighting, and they don't want the good situation to be buried by a group of rat feces, so they can only let Yang Qi fend for himself.