It was a hazy white expanse, and there was fog all around, and it was impossible to see where it was, but it seemed very familiar.

An old woman in ragged clothes appeared in front of her, staggering slowly ahead.

Then Luo Mengzi's round head appeared in front of him, looked at himself with trusting eyes and said: Big brother, for the ambition in your heart, brother will follow you!

Suddenly, the faces of the two men were covered in blood!

Guo Shao woke up suddenly, and once again found a strange little lady lying beside her, and the scars on the corner of her left eye and cheekbone quickly reminded Guo Shao of who it was. He felt a little difficult to breathe, and when he looked around, he saw the red candles flickering, the silk curtains hanging low, and the red silk quilt looked like a sense of wealth.

"Your Majesty, your hands are trembling." Yuqing also woke up.

Guo Shao took a deep breath and froze: "It's okay, it's just a nightmare." ”

Yuqing looked at him suspiciously. Guo Shao pretended to be calm and said: "There are too many people who lead troops to fight and kill, and occasionally it is inevitable to come to me in my dreams." ”

But Guo Shao couldn't sleep anymore...... Courtiers often praise him as a hero, but Guo Shao knows very well in his heart that his psychological quality is not very good, and he lacks some kind of open-mindedness or ruthlessness of the king. For example, the hero Cao Cao said, "I'd rather bear the people of the world, not the people of the world bear me", in the blink of an eye, he can kill his old friend who warmly entertained him because of a little suspicion. These Guo Shao can't do it without pressure.

In the early morning, he got up early to change his clothes and hurried to the Jinxiang Palace. Because today coincides with the "three-day small dynasty", the west hall is a political hall.

Guo Shao didn't sleep well, his head was a little dizzy, and the most obvious thing was that the bags under his eyes were heavy. However, he was still able to deal with it calmly in the council hall, and the twenty or so people who came were all very familiar ministers.

Today's topic is crying poverty. The Ministry of Industry is rushing to repair the embankment before the flood season of the Yellow River, and it is very short of money; The Ministry of War transferred grain and cloth from various localities to pay the salaries of the forbidden army and the guards, believing that this method was extremely costly in transportation and that the supervision process was very difficult. Tobe hinted at taking out gold, silver, copper coins, silk, and other items that were easy to transport from the imperial treasury to make up for the deficit in the treasury.

Guo Shao didn't hide it, and said directly: "The inner treasury has no money." ”

Prime Minister Fan couldn't help but repeat the old words, first saying how serious the repair of the Yellow River is, which is directly related to the safety of the people in Gyeonggi and countless prefectures and counties, and then mentioning that he saw the soldiers of the forbidden army drinking flower wine and visiting the kiln on the street.

"Generals, you should really go out of the capital and go to the people to see what kind of life the people are living and what kind of life the sergeants are doing......"

Shi Yanchao said coldly: "Fan Xianggong, this is the time when you only see people eating meat, but you don't see people desperate." Why didn't Fan Xianggong go to the front of the battle formation to see what it looked like? ”

On this kind of issue, Li Chuyun and Shi Yanchao did not have any disagreement, and Li Chuyun said lightly at the moment: "After the minister returned to the court with His Majesty's class, he had nothing to do, and he did walk around.

Just five or six days ago, Chen saw an old man working there by the Yellow River. Seeing that his old age was declining, he asked him why he didn't let the young men of his family come to serve as servants, and the princes thought he answered? ”

Everyone was silent and waited for Li Chuyun to speak.

Li Chuyun said: "The old man said, the eldest son in the family is only twelve or thirteen years old, and he can't afford to repair the river; But the honest people paid to bribe the county officials, and the county officials had to levy poor households like them in order to make up enough people. ”

Fan Zhen was furious when he heard this, and said, "General Li asked which county and which official received the money?" This official will personally inquire into this matter and punish him severely! ”

Li Chuyun said: "Fan Gong thinks that punishing a small official can change the situation of officials who are greedy for money and fish for the common people? ”

Shi Yanchao smiled: "That's a good thing. The brothers followed the official family to die for nine lives, and the reward was the imperial grain taken by Zhengda Guangming, which was better than the people who secretly touched the fish and flesh of the people! ”

Guo Shao listened for a long time and was a little impatient. The minting of coins at the household department is basically to exchange grain and copper ore for copper coins, which is also a loss-making transaction; This is nothing, anyway, the materials of local taxes are relatively abundant. However, the coins minted now are completely a drop in the bucket, and the copper coins spent by the treasury are transported by cars, and the demand is too great.

He couldn't make money. I have also realized that the advantages of the strategy of centralizing power and strengthening cadres and weak branches outweigh the disadvantages, but as soon as the old rules and regulations of the military system are changed, all aspects will be affected, and there will be many problems in implementation.

Since the imperial power and the imperial court have great autocratic power, is it okay not to give money to the state's financial expenditure? Of course not, because this is not a slave society, and we cannot forcibly plunder and enslave the people of all walks of life without compensation, otherwise the society will regress. If the court officials want to do things, they also have to spend money.

The ministers can't argue for right or wrong, but Guo Shao can't say "Lao Tzu can't help it", he is the emperor, and his attitude must be stable.

Guo Shao immediately spoke: "This matter ......"

The argument of everyone stopped, and the council hall was quiet for a while.

Guo Shao said calmly: "In the past few years, I have rarely heard of droughts, floods, natural disasters, famines, etc., and in general, the wind and rain are smooth in various places. Last time, Zan Jurun proposed the 'cooked manure method', which greatly improved the harvest. As long as people in the world have food and clothing, everything is not a problem, and there is always a way to solve it. ”

When everyone heard it, it did make sense, anyway, everyone couldn't starve to death, how serious could it be, isn't this the truth? Everyone immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise! ”

"Today's discussion, nothing else is dispersed." Guo Shao immediately waved the sleeves of his robe.

Guo Shao left the table and went to the study, and saw Jing Niang waiting there.

Jing Niang stepped forward and took out a metal lump from a cloth pocket and placed it on the table. Guo Shao didn't wait for Jing Niang to speak, so he reached out and picked it up to observe, a very strange thing, it seemed to be an ore, but it was obviously a melted metal. He was stunned for a moment and didn't recognize it.

"It's silver." Jing Niang Road.

"Silver?" Guo Shao was a little puzzled, and felt very different, because the silver was at least white, and this thing was not gray.

Jing Niang said: "The things that the people of the Hyosho Division brought back from the East Island were purchased from the East Island San'in Road. When the officials of the Jiafang Department saw it, they said that it was silver, but it was coarse silver. There was silver, lead, copper, and other things mixed together, making it a bad color. It may be because the people of the East Island San'in Dao are not yet able to refine silver, so that this is the case. ”

Guo Shao suddenly heard this, and asked again: "What kind of Shanyin Dao is there a lot of such mines?" ”

Jing Niang looked slightly embarrassed: "I don't know either." ”

Guo Shao muttered again: "I can't even refine silver, and the mining technology must be very poor, but if I can make a lump of silver ore, it must be an open-pit silver mine." If I dig deeper, I will reap the rewards. ”

Guo Shao played with the thing in his hand, and for a while seemed to see a white light in the dark night!

He was convinced that Japan had silver mines in his country. In later generations, information was developed, and he saw that there were mountains of gold and silver in his country without knowing where he saw the country; At this time, the sporadic investigation of the ancients once again verified this information. So Guo Shao felt more credible.

Guo Shao said: "You personally meet those fine works and merchants who have been to East Island, and then report to me." In addition to the news of precious minerals, there are also national affairs, military, population, ships and other matters of the East Island, as long as you can find out. ”

Jing Niang hugged her fists and said, "Yes." ”

Guo Shao stood up, paced back and forth behind the screen, and rubbed his hands together a few times. He was suddenly in a little impetuous, and he was seduced into panic...... It was when I was so poor that I suddenly found that there were mountains of gold and silver; This feeling is like a person who has been hungry for three days and can't restrain himself when he sees a fragrant chicken thigh.

Money, easy to transport cash! It can solve a lot of problems for Guo Shao!

Especially the brothers in the forbidden army, of course Guo Shao will not listen to the opinions of some civilian officials and reduce their salary. Two reasons: First, those brothers were instigated by themselves to serve the country and the people, and they died with all kinds of bright and noble righteousness, and Guo Shao really couldn't bear to treat them badly. Second, the conscription system and the policy of strong cadres and weak branches implemented by him required sufficient financial support from the center of the imperial court, because if they could not give people a feud, they had to give people other benefits.

Where did the money come from? Issuing banknotes is a no-no! In history, the adhesive paper of the Song Dynasty and the Daming treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty all used failed advanced inspiration to prove that without a professional financial system, paper money cannot be played. Building credit is also a problem, and at first everyone does not accept the value of a piece of paper; After investing a lot of effort to establish the credit of paper money, with the current backward system, it is easy to destroy. It's a laborious thing anyway, and it's not good.

Minting coins with precious metals, gold, silver and copper can solve all the side effects. It has value in itself, and it has been accepted by the world for thousands of years.

Guo Shao's eyes seemed to see Huang Cancan's piles of gold and copper coins and silver coins with white flowers coming out of the workshop in batches, directly transporting them to the treasury, and the wealth was abundant.

His emotions gradually became excited, although he still looked calm on his face, but walking around there and doing some trivial movements had already exposed his inner unpeace.

Guo Shao turned around and said, "Come on, summon Han Tong to meet you." ”

The eunuch's voice said, "The slave obeys." ”

The power of money is still very large, and it can directly affect the military strategy of the entire Daxu Dynasty at once. Guo Shao now feels that Liao and Hexi are not the most urgent opponents, even the superpower Liao does not dare to take the initiative to provoke Daxu now, firstly, the battle of Youzhou has just been defeated, and secondly, the battle of Pingxia has also deterred them. You can take it slow for a while...... And to grab the gold and silver mountains, it is urgent!

Guo Shao is short of money every day, and according to his personal wishes, he must want to occupy the "Shanyin Dao" next month, and dig out some of the gold and silver mountains to solve his urgent needs. But just thinking about it, it still takes time to prepare, the key is that the East Island is too far away for the current Central Plains, the East China Sea is wide, stormy waves, not that you can't win, it's out of reach.

But Guo Shao has already made a decision in his heart to find a way to mine.

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(Sorry, it's been two days.) It's really easy to write now, and sometimes you need to think about it. ）