Plans for something else?

Smiling slightly, Shi Yiwen did not speak, but continued to play chess, perhaps because Wu Cai was absent-minded, so the chess game on the chessboard quickly became a stalemate, looking at the chess game, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"That's what I'm going to do!"

"What are you going to do?"

"Let them fight on their own."

Shi Yiwen said unabashedly.

"You see, just like on this chessboard, now you and I have become a stalemate, but neither one has the ability to destroy the other, but can only deal a blow to the other force, this is the balance! For the royal family, this balance is very important, but both Xunchen and Jiangnan will want to hit each other hard, after all, by that time, it has reached the point of life and death, just like ......"

After a pause, Shi Yiwen sighed.

"Just like the reform and opposition now, they both hope to drive each other out of the court through thunderbolt means and take power alone, but they can't do it on their own."

"Own power?"

Frowning, Wu Cai said.

"Could it be that this is what you are going to do?"

"Yes!"

Nodding, Shi Yiwen sneered.

"Now it's Jiangnan that is big and Xunchen is small, but if the two sides fight, I don't know who will die, but what is certain is that Xunchen will exist no matter what, after all, they are resting with the country, so they will fight, fight, both sides are bound to want to drive each other out, this is my chance!"

His eyes narrowed into thin slits, and Shi Yiwen said proudly.

"Lugou is just a superficial thing, it is only a sprout, a foundation, it is an invisible force, it may be able to influence the government and the Ming Dynasty, but it cannot affect the government of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot affect the future of the Ming Dynasty, so my real purpose is still the banknote!"

"Bill!"

Wu Cai's heart was suddenly shocked, and he said in exclamation.

"You want to secretly cross Chen Cang!"

"That's right!"

Seeing that Wu knew his plan, Shi Yiwen only commented sarcastically:

"If they want to put each other to death, they will inevitably need external help, and they are not willing to easily offend others and turn others into the help of the other party, so the position of the banknote that is free from the court itself has become delicate, and it will become the object of their struggle, and in order to win our support, they will definitely compromise on some issues!"

"Compromise?"

Frowning, Wu Cai asked rhetorically.

"What can I do with just one banknote?"

"Haha, Maoda, don't forget where the banknote is! A place to get cashier! Who doesn't love this silver? ”

After laughing casually, after thinking about it, Shi Yiwen said again.

"In the eyes of many people, the current banknote customs are just a small place that collects 200,000 taels of silver a year, and only 110,000 taels, but when the banknotes collect five or six million taels a year, or even tens of millions of taels, who dares to underestimate it?"

"But aren't all this silver going to be handed over to the inner treasury?"

"Tobe didn't stare at the inner library that day? I didn't want to move the inner treasury silver to the household department that day......"

Smiling, Shi Yiwen sneered.

"As long as they want silver, they have to make some concessions, silver, will never be given for nothing, silver, will be our influence on the government, until the influence of the government."

"Use silver to influence the government?"

Wu Cai was surprised.

"This, is it possible? No matter how much silver there is, can it be greater than power? ”

"The power of money is definitely greater than the power of no money, and the combination of silver and power is far greater than you can imagine."

In the late Qing Dynasty, how did customs affect the government of the Manchu Dynasty? Backed by the Great Powers? Of course not, in the final analysis, it still relied on silver, because it held the silver, and the continuous expansion of Hurd's influence on the government and the opposition was precisely because of the continuous growth of customs and duty revenues and the continuous deterioration of the Manchu finances. In the end, it even reached a situation where it could not be maintained without the customs court.

And the reason why Shi Yiwen wants to sit in the banknote customs is also based on the same experience.

"Poor!"

Faintly spit out a word, Shi Yiwen sneered.

"The poor are short-minded, and the poor court is ...... It's the same. As long as the silver is in our hands, the government will inevitably be around us, first eleven permanent customs, and so on in the future we wait for the opportunity, and then set up a new customs, master the customs, so step by step steady and steady, three or five years later, when the fight between them is increasingly fierce, the small shoot of the banknote will grow into a big tree, and when they realize this, we will also become a towering tree! By then......"

After a pause, Shi Yiwen did not continue, not because of anything else, but because everything was like a chess game on this chessboard, very clear, and it was impossible for too many changes to occur. Now, what I need is to push it step by step, in the direction of my own needs.

"But, Zhiyuan, I remember that you said before that in the future, the banknotes will be made to the sons of the lords, will this cause those people to regard the banknotes as hostile? After all, when the time comes, the lord and they will be at hostility. ”

Wu Cai reminded earnestly.

"Zhiyuan, if you are sure to do this, then it will basically be equivalent to standing on the side of the lord, even if you try your best, I'm afraid you can't be alone, if you are involved because of the background of those people, the best result is also a lose-lose, snipe and clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman, you say, what else to do with this fisherman at that time? So? ”

After glancing at Shi Yiwen, Wu Cai tried to suggest.

"I think it's still necessary to use ordinary scholars, ordinary scholars, and it's a big deal to use the scholars of the five northern provinces, so that they can maintain their detachment ......in the middle."

"Absolutely impossible!"

Before Wu Cai finished speaking, Shi Yiwen interrupted him with a sneer.

"Maoda, you are a scholar, don't you know what a scholar relies on? Not a scholar, but relying on classmates, fellow villagers, the same year, teachers, and teachers, they rely on this relationship, from the day I opened the Ming Dynasty, I built a network covering the entire Ming Dynasty, so as to maintain their power, we are targeting the Jiangnan River, but in fact it may be the entire civil official system, no matter what, I will not take the risk! ”

Shaking his head, Shi Yiwen said seriously.

"And I have other plans in this matter!"

With a long breath, Shi Yiwen looked out the window, looked at the alabaster outside the window through the glass window, pondered for a moment, and then said.

"It's the end of November now."

"Huh?"

Wu Cai looked at the proprietor with some doubts.

Does it matter?

"There's a guest at home!"

Wu Cai looked at Shi Yiwen with a suspicious face.

Coming to visit? What do you mean?

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