In the early years, the Han family had two copper mines in Xuanzhou, but after the founding of the Great Chu, it was requisitioned by the Inner Government Bureau, and the copper mined and refined was collected from the Inner Government to mint money.

In the previous turmoil, the Han family's wealth and family property have been tossed several times, and the slaves and maids are also scattered and impermanent, and the foundation is far less solid than the Feng family before the imperial tomb case.

At this time, it was already late September, and the Han family had been bankrupt to support the construction of the Tangyi defense line for nearly a year, and the fields and houses that could be sold in Xuanshe and the two prefectures were nine out of ten, and most of the newly added houses and pawn shops in Jinling in the past two years were also sold, and they were replaced with japonica rice, bacon, wood, medicinal materials, mules, horses, cattle, and other materials totaling more than 800,000 yuan and transported into Tangyi.

At this time, the Han family can already be said to be squeezed to the limit.

At present, the money and food that can still be used is the more than 300,000 yuan that Han Daochang recently persuaded Qiao Weiyan, Chen Zhiyong, and Han Duanzheng's mother's family, Zhang's family, to continue to deliver scarce materials to Tangyi.

Even if Xuzhou can collect 800,000 pieces of cotton cloth and 4 million catties of seed cotton from the cotton weaving industry this year, in addition to the surplus of salt profits, taxes and the Industrial Construction Bureau, it can only barely support Tangyi's expenses with the support of the Han family.

Build large and small camps along the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain, and build more and more sophisticated armor and warships to strengthen the military equipment of Tangyi soldiers.

The supply of more than 20,000 elite soldiers needs to be sufficient, and it is also necessary to ensure that their families can settle down in Tangyi to ensure that the morale of the generals is high and they do not fall into a trough.

The construction of the seven counties of Tangyi, headed by East Lake, is also in full swing.

Even if hundreds of millions of money and grain were harvested in Tangyi, they were swallowed up like flowing water.

Without such a large-scale amount of money and food to support him, how could Han Qian have the confidence to ignore the elite military threat of the Shouzhou Army and build and operate Tangyi into a foundation?

However, because of this, Xuzhou's inherent financial resources and the Han family have been squeezed to the limit.

The reason why he was able to promise to take 1 million yuan this time and lend it to Shouwangfu and Huaidong was mainly because Han Qian made Xixunqiao and Qiao Weiyan persuade the weaving mills and yarn factories in Xuzhou to directly convert the cotton cloth and cotton thread equivalent to about 2 million horses into the corresponding money and deposit it into the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau.

The currency value of cloth in the world was no worse than that of copper money, gold and silver.

It was common in the world to use cloth to pay taxes, to exchange cloth for food and other daily necessities, and for officials to use cloth as a reward or a gift to courtiers.

However, just as large-scale investment in coins can lead to inflation and a sharp depreciation of the currency, when the production of cloth in a place surges without an effective and stable sales channel, it can also cause great disorder.

At present, Xuzhou can produce more than 400,000 pieces of cotton cloth per month, of which more than 80,000 pieces of cotton cloth are paid to the state government as taxes, and there are also more than 60,000 pieces of cotton cloth produced in the weaving places directly under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Construction Bureau, totaling 150,000 horses

and the Wuchuan Salt and Iron Supervision Institute controlled by Xuzhou, which was sold into Yuzhou through the Qianjiang River waterway, and was fully taken over by Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, at a relatively low price.

After that, it was secretly controlled by the Changxiang Hou Wang Yong and exported to the outside of Sichuan and Shu prefectures.

In addition, there are about 250,000 or 60,000 pieces of cotton cloth every month, which are owned by various weaving workshops and home weavers, who have to contact the ship's depot to sell them abroad.

Not to mention that Xuzhou, as a feudal household, was greatly restricted in itself from importing large quantities of goods into the hinterland, and the local prefectures and counties in the world were mainly dominated by the manor economy controlled by the clan lords, so where was the circulation of goods as free as in later generations?

Through various efforts, Han Qian opened up trade to Qianzhong, Nanzhao and Gyeonggi, and the output of millions of cotton cloth last year was already the limit.

This year, if there is an increase, it will be quite limited.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, various weaving workshops have accumulated a large amount of cotton yarn and cotton cloth in their hands.

Han Qian said that he wanted to wash Xunqiao and Qiao Weiyan to persuade as much as possible, and not to engage in coercion, but in the current situation, where is the need for persuasion and coercion?

When the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau agreed that cotton yarn and cotton cloth would be converted into corresponding money and deposited, cotton yarn and cotton cloth were piled up in the warehouse of the official money bureau.

In terms of capital conversion, the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau only had a capital of 200,000 yuan before.

This is mainly due to Han Qian's accumulation in Xuzhou over the years, plus the income from foreign loans over the years, there is not much of the deposit that Han Qian is looking forward to.

The power of tradition is too great.

Even the generals in Xuzhou, who have surplus money and grain at home, are accustomed to hoarding at home or burying them in their own yards, where is the concept of "saving the bank"?

However, this time, the weaving yards and even private weavers used cotton yarn and cotton cloth as deposits to be included in the official money bureau, and the total capital of the Xuzhou official money bureau surged by four or five times at once.

This time it was planned to borrow from Shouwangfu and Huaidong, and Han Qian planned to use this batch of cotton yarn and cotton cloth as capital by the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau.

However, Han Qian would never easily reveal the bottom of the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau and the Xuzhou cotton weaving industry to Shouwangfu and Huaidong at this time, so in order to hide people's eyes, this money will be nominally taken out by the Han family.

Of course, how to exchange the cotton yarn and cotton cloth worth millions of threads into more convenient payment is the main condition for Han Daoming and Feng Yi to negotiate with Yang Zhitang when they come over this time, in addition to mortgages, money and interest, and recruiting landless refugees to enter Tangyi.

In other words, in addition to Huaidong, the Shouwang Mansion had to actively support the merchant ships of the Chishan Society to directly enter Hongzhou and Yuanzhou, which were the traditional spheres of influence of the Shouwang Mansion, as well as the prefectures, counties, towns, and towns in the area where the Youlongwu Army assisted in the defense of the army, to suppress all kinds of obstructions from local forces......

As long as the Shouwang Mansion can agree to these conditions, the required warships and corresponding sophisticated warships will be sent to the Aoshan Island Navy Camp in three months, and the follow-up supply procurement of sophisticated warships and warships can even be discounted by eight percent in Xuzhou and sold to the Youlongwu Army at cost price; After three or five months, wait for the Han family to sell part of the farmhouse, or even lower

Money interest, borrow money from Shouwangfu......

As for the loan in Huaidong, the Xuzhou side plans to purchase 20,000 to 30,000 japonica rice per month directly from the merchant ships of the Chishan Society and directly from the prefectures and counties where the Youlongwu Army assists in defense and has relatively sufficient grain production.

The requirements for Huaidong are simpler, that is, to continue to divert the hungry people into Tangyi for resettlement, the loan period of this money and grain can be delayed for a longer time, and the interest on the money can also be calculated by half - after all, Huaidong will be in a state of shortage of money and grain for a long time, even if there is no large-scale war in the lower reaches of the Huai River, it will take four or five years before there will be additional money and grain to accumulate to pay off the debt.

Of course, these conditions will be when Feng Yi accompanies Shouwang Yang Zhitang to Yangzhou to propose, hoping that Yang Zhitang can help do the work of Huaidong together.

Han Daoming and Feng Yi put forward these conditions, and Yang Zhitang and his internal officials also pondered for a long time.

The imperial court can't come up with more money and grain, and even the salt farm is seriously attacked, which will directly affect the salt income, and the Han family can come up with millions of money and grain, which can be said to solve their urgent needs with Huaidong, which is destined to be unable to fundamentally overturn the conditions offered by Xuzhou.

However, that doesn't mean they're going to limit it as much as possible

The first is that the scope of the trade activities of the Chishan Society is limited to the prefectures and counties where Yuan Hong and Youlongwujun are stationed, and Yang Zhitang's reason is that in these prefectures and counties, the officials are appointed by the imperial court, and the state soldiers and county soldiers also obey the orders of the imperial court, and will more or less follow the orders of the Central Council.

However, many towns and ports located in important places on land and water are mainly controlled by local clan lords, and even local clan lords also recruit people to train village soldiers to manage local security.

The second is to require that the trade of the Chishan Society in the prefectures and counties should be supervised by the salt and iron envoys in various local supervision institutes.

This involves the collection of taxes and city parking taxes, even if Yang Zhitang does not raise his opinion, the Salt and Iron Envoy will inevitably use this as an excuse to do everything possible to sabotage the cooperation between Xuzhou and Shouwangfu.

The third is to allow some of the generals of the Right Dragon Martial Army to enter the battalion of the Tangyi soldiers to observe the battle and training.

Although Hongzhou is adjacent to Dongting Lake, and there are also a number of generals and military attachés who are aware of the naval warfare, this requirement, in addition to further strengthening the training of naval generals, is more important for the naval attachés to enter the main form of combat and training of the Tangyi naval army in close quarters, and only after comparison can we quickly confirm whether the ships built in Xuzhou have any ill-intentioned concealment in terms of performance and operability.

Fourth, Yang Zhitang hoped that Han Qian would directly squeeze out a group of elite warships from Tangyi, and Yang Zhitang specially designated two roar warships with a maximum scale of 4,000 stones, so that the sailors of the Youlong Wu Army could be trained as soon as possible, instead of delaying until a month later before handing over the first batch of warships.

Feng Yi and Han Daoming have no right to agree to these conditions for Han Qian, but they only said that they will send someone to cross the river to see Han Qian early tomorrow morning, and they will be able to respond accurately the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and at that time, they may have to Shouwang Yang Zhitang directly accompany them to Yangzhou to say goodbye.