On the grass of the deer garden of the monarch's house, Zhao Yong hugged his knees, put his chin on his knees, slowly shook back and forth, and said to the teacher: "Teacher, you have always said that reform is actually an easy thing, but why do I feel so difficult?" Then he looked at Zhao Xing with dependence: "Teacher, I already regret sealing you out instead of staying by my side, and always teach me what to do." ”

Zhao Xing touched his head: "When I was fifteen years old, I was young and crazy, and it was also called that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers." But as you get older, the more things you are exposed to, and of course the more suffering you have. Now that you are eighteen years old, and you will be nineteen years old after the New Year, it is said that the Queen Mother has decided to marry Ami, the official woman of Yan Kingdom, to be your wife. As long as you get married, you are a real man. ”

"I don't like her." Zhao Yong said decisively: "I prefer to be like the teacher, meet a person I like, and then run away, what is that called?" ”

"It's love at first sight." Zhao Xing's eyes were full of tenderness.

"Well, I like love love at first sight."

Zhao Xing shook his head and said, "But I can do it, ordinary people can do it, but you can't do it." ”

"Why?"

"Because you are the king, and your marriage is politics."

Zhao Yong has nothing to say, he has passed the age of trouble, he is older and mature. Maturity is not only about age and body, but also about politics.

With a long sigh, and finally helplessly stirred up the bonfire in front of him, Zhao Yong said to Zhao Xing: "Forget it, let's not say that it is a tasteless and distressing political marriage, let's talk about reform." ”

Zhao Xing was also reluctant to talk about it, because political marriage was an internal affair of the Wang family, and Zhao Yong needed to use this marriage, which he was not willing to do at all, to strengthen the relationship with the Queen Mother. As Zhao Yong grew up, the queen mother became more and more difficult to grasp this son, so the mother and son were not as harmonious as they were at the beginning, and there was a crisis between the mother and son. It's not good, it's very bad.

"Fifty thousand cavalry, this number has not been reached until now, which is quite dangerous for our Zhao State in the land of four battles." Regarding the progress of the orchestra pool's reorganization of cavalry, Zhao Xing was really a little dissatisfied.

"It's not about money, the money that the teacher worked so hard to get was apportioned by various departments in a blink of an eye, and there is not much left for those who really need money to reform the army, what can I do."

Zhao Yong has not stopped since the day he inherited the throne, and it is a huge event that burns money, no matter how rich his family is, he can't stand such a toss. When Zhao Xing brought 3.5 million yuan, before Zhao Yong could appreciate enough, it was divided up by various departments that urgently needed money in a blink of an eye.

And this ambitious and most wanted to quickly realize the cavalry reform, but there is still not enough money to invest - cavalry, even more money.

"We are in the land of four wars, and the wars have been going on for many years, which is inevitable, as the so-called trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop."

"The teacher is right." Zhao Yong felt the same way. Chinese bar

"Blindly following the original system of conscription of the militia not only caused the people to delay their agricultural work and caused us to suffer losses, but more importantly, it also made us no longer levy taxes, so that the income of the treasury continued to decrease. This one out and one in is a cycle of evil deeds. Therefore, it is imperative for the people not to delay production because of the war, to let them concentrate on production to pay levies for the treasury, so that the treasury can be abundant, and the country to establish a standing army. ”

"The teacher is right, change is not an active assumption, this is how it proceeds according to reality, so to hell with those stubborn conservatives." Then he gloomy again: "However, we have only equipped 30,000 cavalry, and we have already exhausted the treasury, when will the goal of 50,000 cavalry be achieved?" ”

"Speaking of which, it's really about money. Please General Jun brought the tin armor this time, that is, the iron armor, as well as the steel knife made by the Zhao clan to equip the soldiers. Then give me the soldier's original bronze armor and bronze sword, and I will return the coins to you according to the weight, this one in and one out, a set of bronze armor, a bronze sword, you can exchange me for two sets of iron armor, two sharp steel copper knives. In this way, it is equivalent to equipping 10,000 dollars, and equipping 20,000 soldiers is equivalent to having money. ”

"The iron armor is stronger than the bronze armor, the iron sword is longer and sharper than the bronze sword, and the slashing of the cavalry, this is indeed a kind of progress in equipment, but if I have been relying on the secret support of the teacher, I am uneasy."

Young Zhao Yong was sincerely ashamed, Zhao Xing really wanted to tell him the connotation of making money in it to alleviate his pain, but Zhao Xing finally closed his mouth, it was better to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "If we want to achieve our original goal in the jungle, we must be brothers as one, what do we care about you and mine?" ”

Zhao Yong's eyes were red, and he sniffed hard: "Teacher, there is really no copper in the treasury, so I owe it to the teacher for the time being." When I move the Jiuding back, I'll give you half of the account. There is a connotation to what this is saying. Zhao Xing didn't feel moved now, but just smiled indifferently: "If we can hand over all the bronzes of Zhao Kingdom, except for ritual vessels, to me and exchange them with new coins that I have newly minted, our finances will be completely alleviated." ”

The reason why Zhao Xing is so anxious and greedy is because he needs to mint money, mint a lot of money, and then use this abundant capital to build Sitongguan into a financial center in the world.

There is this condition for four customs clearances. He is bordered by Zhao in the north, Qin in the west, Wei in the east, Korea in the southeast, Chu in the south, and then Zhou Yuan.

In this era, the currency of different countries is different, the system is different, and the value of the currency is also different. But as countries grew, commerce and trade began to flourish. Merchants traveled all over the world, and countries exchanged everything, and there was an urgent need for a currency that could circulate in various countries. Zhao Xing's currency is filling this void. Zhao Xing is ready to use the four customs clearances to make his currency a common currency. Zhao Xing began to be proud, unscrupulous in picking wool and cutting leeks.

But if Zhao Xing wants to achieve this goal, he must prepare sufficient start-up capital - Singapore currency.

Zhao Yong stood up and shook off the fur on his body: "Okay, I will mobilize the people now, collect all the bronze artifacts, hand them over to the teacher for new coins, solve our financial problems, and equip our cavalry." Three years, within three years, we must train an invincible 50,000 iron horsemen. ”

Standing on the court, Zhao Yong faced the ministers with a magnificent momentum: "Our army reform must not stagnate, a powerful iron cavalry, yes, a cavalry equipped with iron weapons, must be reorganized into 50,000 within three years." In order to solve the problem of funds for the formation and training of the new army, the widow has decided to collect copper materials from all over the world and hand them over to Xingjun to mint new coins. Start with a widow. Then he took the sword at his waist and threw it to the ground without hesitation. Then he commanded loudly: "Collect all the unnecessary bronze vessels in the palace and melt them down and mint them." ”

With an order, countless palace maids and eunuchs carried all kinds of bronze utensils to the square, piled up there, and in the blink of an eye it was a hill. Among them, there is Zhao Yong's favorite lantern.

In this era, bronze was widely used in reproduction and life, which can be summarized into twelve categories and countless sub-categories. Because of Zhao Xing's iron implementation, stronger and sharper iron can replace many everyday bronze objects.

The king took the lead, and the whole country responded, from small hairpins, night pots, to copper case car parts, everything that can be replaced by iron, that is everything.

Then these copper materials were continuously sent to Daijun, sent to Zhao Xing's furnace, with the abundance of raw materials, batches of coins were minted, transported to Handan, and then turned into batches of iron armor, steel knives, war horses, and fierce soldiers. Five thousand iron horsemen in three years are about to be realized.