"So if you want to be cured, you can only rely on me, you can only rely on you, and work together. Whether it is the Taoism of Confucianism, or the Maitreya of the Pure Land Sect, or the beacon of Zen Buddhism, I only hope that the fire can be passed on from generation to generation, breaking the cycle of size and size that Han Huizhi said, not waiting for any great evil and great sages, but everyone can be a sage, not to fight for this world, but to save this world, so that it can move forward and move towards the light. At this time, Gao Yue turned around, turned his back to the Yangtze River, and said to the two pensive people.

"How can I save this?"

"This is one of the ways that we want to truly multiply the wealth of the people.

This Tao hopes that there will be more ways for the state and the people to give in addition to the yuan amount and the regular endowment.

This way hopes that the whole world, in terms of money, can be set as one, and in the future, money and the country can be completely equal (a sovereign currency that has not existed in the Celestial Empire for thousands of years), and then people can freely transfer goods to each other with the help of 'national money', and can use this national money to closely combine the land outside Kyushu under the wings of China, and so on.

This way wants officials and the people, not to patronize the virtue, but also to see the profit, the meaning of the loom of Xingyuan lies in this, the pursuit of profit under the moral code is not shameful, this fourth. ”

Han Yu was really a little frightened, a vivid picture seemed to appear in front of his eyes, his ideal "life has common sense, men and women have their own morals, cold clothes and hunger, and work hard in spinning", that is, the male ploughing and female weaving, the closed natural village, under Gao Yue's words, completely collapsed the original simple people of the village, seeing the snow-like platinum (silver), carrying the yellow bright copper coin, understanding that this metal with magic can be exchanged for everything, they all went crazy, they threw away farm tools, abandoned farmland and mulberry trees, and left their hometowns, Wandering freely through the mountains or the water villages, where they could get money, they went there, the 'family gate' dissolved, the 'village party' collapsed, whether it was a merchant or a peasant, or a craftsman, they all carried a weighing pan or abacus outside or at home, and the heavy thickness of the coins was measured, and the blood of the country was no longer the admonition of the sages, but white silver, or gold and copper—this scene was even more exciting and terrifying than the "Xingyuan Revolution" that Han Yu had previously envisioned.

At this moment, Han Yu cupped his head and said to Gao Yue, "In this way, between a township and a village, the east household is poor if there is no money, and the west household is expensive if it is rich.

But Liu Zongyuan seemed to understand a little, "The Xingyuan loom is passed down to five people, or even ten people. That is to say, but to set up a town supervisor in Tianjin, if there are fifty looms, that is, the work of two hundred and fifty people, but one person and one machine is enough, then the function of two hundred people will be redundant, if the work is saved, the price of cotton cloth or silk silk will inevitably be reduced, then soon the whole world will be able to have cloth. ”

"But the reward for people's merit will also drop by four or five times!" Han Yu angrily corrected that he thought Liu Zongyuan had only seen the good side.

Gao Yue said, "When you retreat, you can only see one of them, and you can't see the others." Since the invention of ingenuity can make the salary go down, the business owners will soon rush to it in order to reduce the cost. As for the redundant human work, it can be used in other directions, such as can be used to burn porcelain, can be moved, can be done anything else, since wealth is created by people, if wealth can really be expanded and multiplied, the more wealth, the more merchants and households, the more taxes the court and the government can extract, and there is no need to increase the amount of yuan, and there is no need to excessively levy and extort when the country has something (such as war), because the two taxes paid by these two kinds of households are all cash. ”

"Since there is more tax money, more money is needed to transfer it. This is what Wei Guogong said, not only to mint more money, but also copper coins alone are not very effective. Liu Zongyuan was very keen to draw inferences, "Then gold and silver must be added." ”

Gao Yue bowed, "The income of farmers and craftsmen from their daily work is very small, and it can be settled with copper coins." However, if you want to expand commerce and trade and facilitate the levy, you must have gold and silver. Then he said, "For example, white gold, which used to be cast into collars and ingots, has no body, and this way is going to hire craftsmen from Persian food to be able to cast white gold into money, which is set at one and is the national currency (Han Yu thought in horror, why are you minting the national currency). ”

In the language of the Celestial Empire, money refers exclusively to copper coins, as the Celestial Empire almost never minted gold and silver into coins. Therefore, in the later trade with the West, compared with the gold and silver coins that were beautifully minted and stable in the West, the silver of the Celestial Empire suffered a great loss due to its lack of fixed style and chaotic and rough fineness (for example, the Qing government's previous indemnities, how many taels of silver were written in the treaty, but in the end, the foreign powers did not recognize the silver of the Qing government, so they had to be exchanged for Mexican silver dollars for compensation, and they were slaughtered in the process). ）

At this moment, Han Yu had a new question, "I only know that there is platinum production in Xinzhou, Jiangnan West Province, and Qinzhou in Longxi Province in the northwest. Therefore, if Wei Guogong only uses platinum as a coin in Huainan, it should be enough, but to promote it as a national currency, I am afraid that the mountains and rivers are produced, which is not enough to transfer the needs of the world. ”

At this time, Gao Yue told Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan very calmly, "Retreat is right, the platinum produced in Longxi, Anxi, Jiangxi and Fujian is completely insufficient (the Celestial Empire has been extremely short of precious metals since ancient times), but there is still a way to get platinum - Nanzhao, Borneo, and Japan in Haidong all have this kind of thing, as long as we introduce them, not only can they be used for their own transfers, but also can firmly control these countries, and if they are not tamed, they will use force to fight." ”

Han Yue was shocked, what does Wei Guogong mean? It may be necessary to trade and even war against these countries for the sake of platinum

Driving the army to start a war, just to get platinum, and with it, it will also plunder manpower, this, this, this is completely inconsistent with the Taoism of all dynasties!

Liu Zongyuan never thought of this, when he visited Gao Yue in the hall at that time, he talked a lot about the difference between crusade and invasion, but he didn't expect that soon I, Tang, would also start to invade other countries for gold and silver?

In "On the Xingyuan Revolution", Han Yu once predicted the situation, but I am afraid that it will come true soon!

Sixty years of a Jiazi, the so-called historical cycle, this is the limit of Han Yu's own ability to predict, but Gao Yue, the Duke of Wei Guo in front of him, is not constrained by the number of sixty years at all.

At this moment, a trumpet sounded, Gao Yue pointed to the river below Guangling, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan came to watch, and they realized that Gao Yue's behavior would never stop at words

The sails of the two new ships of the sea, each with 8,000 hundreds, were raised, and the clouds of the Dapeng bird were angrily cleaving the wind and cleaving the waves towards the ocean farther east. It is also followed by a number of small circles of exotic sea vessels, ups and downs.

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