Hanzhong, Imperial Palace.

Maybe it's really the son of heaven, since Liu Bei ascended the throne, this year's grain harvest in Jingshu and Shu has greatly alleviated the food crisis in Shu this year, plus since June, Jianning has continued to transport a large number of copper coins and copper out of Nanzhong, transported to Hanzhong, and now because of the country's use of money and grain in recent years, although the deficit has not been completely made up, but this newly built imperial court can be considered to be able to operate normally.

"Yi Boyuan said in his heart, this Nanzhong wealthy family has privately minted a lot of copper coins over the years, but now these copper coins have alleviated a lot of embarrassment." Liu Bei handed the bamboo note in his hand to Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "Count it up, Bo Yuan is like Nanzhong, it has been two years." ”

"Your Majesty laughed, but it didn't last that long." Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, Liu Yi left last year, if you count it by year, it has indeed been two years, but in fact, it is more than a year.

"It's just that I never thought that this southern and central land would be so complicated." Liu Bei nodded with a smile and said, originally he was not too concerned about Nanzhong, occupying half of Yizhou's territory, but in fact, Nanzhong has a registered population, and even one percent of Yizhou is not, and it is a barren land.

But what Liu Bei didn't expect was that in the end, judging from the results reported by Liu Yi, the population of Nanzhong was at least twice as much as recorded in the household registration, which is not counting barbarians, if they are all included, the population of this Nanzhong land cannot be ignored.

Originally, Liu Yi wanted to develop Nanzhong, Liu Bei didn't quite agree, after all, a place in Nanzhong, it was not worth it to leave a general in the DPRK there, and now the entire Liu Bei court is actively preparing for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and even the plan to send troops is already available here, and Liu Bei doesn't want to spend too much manpower and material resources in Nanzhong.

But Liu Yi went to Nanzhong, only brought less than 5,000 soldiers and horses, and now, Liu Yi's Han barbarian soldiers and horses have added up, there are 30,000 people, this is still the result of Liu Yi dismissing a lot, and Liu Bei sent back hundreds of millions of wealth, and I heard that Liu Yi also occupied several silver mines, which made Liu Bei's attention to Nanzhong continue to increase.

"There's one more thing, Kong Ming take a look." Liu Bei handed a letter to Zhuge Liang and said, "Bo Yuan proposed to mint silver coins, and I feel that something is inappropriate. ”

Zhuge Liang heard that he took the letter, the letter was sent by Liu Yi two months ago, and it had been in Liu Bei's hands for a while, but Liu Bei always felt that it was not good to add a new currency rashly, so he wanted to discuss with Zhuge Liang this time.

The content of the letter is that silver coins are used as currency, and one silver coin is equivalent to 100 copper coins, which is considered a large amount of money.

"It's not very good." Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "At present, the folk coins have just stabilized, if the silver coins are launched at this time, not to mention whether the silver mineral output in Yunnan is sufficient, and it is easy to cause panic to the people, it is best to wait for a few years, and it is best to slowly figure it out after the world is peaceful." ”

Many of Liu Yi's ideas are good, but in Zhuge Liang's view, some are too radical, this governance of the world, especially with Liu Bei's territory getting bigger and bigger, it is more necessary to seek stability, too large reforms, easy to cause chaos, after all, the current Liu Bei Group is no longer the small force in the past, and all aspects need to be considered.

"Is the world peaceful?" Liu Bei touched his beard and sighed, not knowing if he would be able to wait until that day.

"Your Majesty, rest assured!" Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei's expression was a little depressed, and knew that he had inadvertently encountered Liu Bei's sadness, and hurriedly relieved: "The situation in my dynasty is very good now, although Cao Wei is based on the Central Plains, but he is surrounded by enemies, only to accumulate for three or five years, after my soldiers are sufficient, they can send troops to Guanzhong, if they can get the land in Guanzhong, they can join forces with Dongwu to attack the Central Plains in the north and south, why worry about the uncertain world?" ”

Liu Bei smiled when he heard this, his heart was a lot better, in fact, he also knew that things were not so simple, if the Han really recovered the land of Guanzhong, whether Jiangdong was still willing to form an alliance with Liu Bei was worth discussing, after all, if he could really win Guanzhong, then the Han already had the ability to compete with Cao Wei, even if Cao Wei was defeated in the end, Jiangdong might not be able to expand, in this case, Jiangdong is likely to seek Jingxiang again.

"I have Kong Ming, Bo Yuan, and Shi Yuan, why worry about the uncertain world? It's a pity that filial piety died early, which is really a loss for my big man! In the end, Liu Bei's expression was a little gloomy.

When Fa Zheng Liu Yi went to Nanzhong, he suffered from a serious illness, even if Liu Bei sent someone to Jingzhou to invite Hua Tuo, he would not have time to treat Fa Zheng in the future, and Fa Zheng's death made Liu Bei's heart ache.

Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Bei's half a hundred hair, and the wrinkles on his face became clearer and clearer, and sighed silently in his heart, now that Liu Bei is over sixty years old, he really doesn't know if he can see the day when the world will be unified.

"Your Majesty, Shangshu ordered Pang Tong to ask to see him." Just when Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were speechless, an attendant came in and bowed to Liu Bei.

"Biography." Liu Bei nodded when he heard this.

After a while, Pang Tong's chubby body appeared on the main hall, looking quite happy, Pang Tong's life in the past two years was obviously good, after coming in, he saluted Liu Bei and said: "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Shiyuan doesn't have to be polite." Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "Come here in a hurry, but what's the matter?" ”

"It's news from Nanzhong." Pang Tong smiled: "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

"Oh?" Liu Bei asked the chamberlain to present the recital presented by Pang Tong.

"Nanban has decided?" Liu Bei handed the letter to Zhuge Liang and said with some exclamation: "From Bo Yuan's official entry into Zhu Zhi, it has only been half a year now, and he has won six battles and six victories, and he has subdued the barbarian king?" ”

Liu Yi is hoping to repay the merits, and secondly, he hopes to be able to set up a new county, so that Meng Shu can be appointed as the Taishou of Yunnan, with the heart of the barbarians, and thirdly, Liu Yi hopes to continue to stay in Nanzhong this time to be responsible for the construction of Nanzhong, and dredge the road between Nanzhong and the territory, in addition, Liu Yi found that after the barbarian soldiers were trained, their combat power was good, and he was reluctant to disband the barbarian soldiers under his account, hoping that the imperial court could send a general to take over the barbarian soldiers under Liu Yi's command for training, and train a southern barbarian soldiers and horses for the imperial court.

The letter also mentioned the matter of rattan armor, which has been loaded and transported back, in which Liu Yi gave a detailed explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of rattan armor.

In general, Liu Yi's letter this time has only three things, hand over the military power, repay the merits, and ask for money!

The construction of the southern and central regions, the opening of various roads, the establishment of transportation lines, and the construction of at least hundreds of walled cities to be built, as well as the naturalization of the barbarians, which do not cost money.

Liu Bei was quite happy at first, after all, the land of Nanzhong was completely pacified, and the court would no longer have any worries, but when he saw that Liu Yi asked for money later, Liu Bei's face was a little green.

I also know that to develop and improve the entire land of Nanzhong, as well as the track laying that Liu Yi said, the money will definitely not be less, this treasury has just had some money, and the money sent by Nanzhong has not yet been warmed up, and it will be asked back by Liu Yi again.

Although Liu Yi didn't say anything about building a city this time, those dazzling projects, such as track laying, such as the construction of a basic walled city, such as the construction of a small city in the central walled city, as well as logging and land reclamation, etc., Liu Bei estimated that after so many projects, I am afraid that three or five Yueyang cities can be built.

Now Liu Bei's mood can be described as complicated and difficult to understand, Liu Yi quickly handed over the military power after pacifying Nanzhong, which made Liu Bei very pleased, but then Liu Yi came to ask for money These years have become a habit, sometimes Liu Bei is thinking, even if Liu Yi asks him for power, it may be more acceptable than this large amount of money.

Not only that, Liu Yi's project this time after the completion of the construction of the land of Nanzhong, but also in Shudi, Hanzhong, Jingzhou war, the budget time is five years, all over the country manpower also needs to be used, although they are only in various places, do not need people to rush back and forth, but this time the entire scope of the so-called track laying, the budget manpower needs to use 500,000 yuan, which makes Liu Bei's heartbeat a little aggravated.

In Jingshu and Shuzhou, the population recorded in the register was 9 million when it was counted last year, and it sounds like 500,000 is not a lot, and it is only in the locality, and you can go back to plow the fields when the farming is busy.

But the problem is that hiring these people is not recruitment, it costs money, and the price is not low, 500,000 people, it costs 50 million dollars a day!

Of course, these 500,000 people are not going to be mobilized all at once, but Rao is so, and the amount of money spent is also astronomical.

"Kong Ming!" Liu Bei saw that Zhuge Liang was reading the book with relish, and sighed.

"Your Majesty." Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Bei.

"You say, is this Bo Yuan sent by Heaven to punish me?" Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "With so much manpower, it costs money to hire, do you see clearly the money he expects to consume?" Three tens of billion! ”

Liu Bei felt that when he said this number, his heart and liver were trembling, did the money in Jingshu land add up to so much?

"Your Majesty hasn't finished reading it." Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "This is actually a number of art and business problems, if only out and not in, it is indeed 30 billion, but these money is not calculated in this way, such as building a good bazaar, opening trade of all ethnic groups, in addition to the need for money when building, the next tax can be collected, the money sent out, farmers also have to consume, buy a house, also need money, the house is Shaofu is responsible for the construction, the money recovered will eventually flow back to the national treasury, at the same time, after the opening of these rail cars, in addition to transporting goods, you can also attack the people to ride, it is not free, And along the way the post station can also provide food and lodging, which greatly reduces the cost of the business journey, but also for the treasury to add another amount of money, such an algorithm, the first year needs to invest fifty memories, but the second year said that six billion to invest, but in fact the first year of the construction has begun to return funds, in fact, the investment is much lower than this number, about two billion to three billion, and so on, the third year may be able to balance the income and expenditure, the queen two years with the previous money to build, not only do not need to invest, but also have a certain surplus, After these are completed, they will only be invested in this ...... every year after that The money for maintenance is not allocated by the government treasury at all. ”

After five years, it will be purely earned, and in fact, what needs to be invested is only the first eight billion.

"When hasn't that been the case?" Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "It's just that it hasn't been earned for two years, and Bo Yuan will definitely continue to build new things." ”

"But if it's really as Bo Yuan said, this rail car can replace the people, it can travel hundreds of miles a day, and there are fewer people, the minister thinks it's worth it." Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, he can see clearly, although it will hurt a little for the time being, but the more it goes on, the smoother it will be, and it will definitely be a great benefit for the whole country.

"It's just...... Eight billion! Liu Bei was a little distressed and said, he was a straw sandal seller, and telling Liu Bei this number decades ago could scare Liu Bei to death.

Zhuge Liang just smiled and didn't speak, he believed that Liu Bei would make the right decision.

Liu Bei sighed, looked at Zhuge Liang, and then at Pang Tong, both of them obviously supported Liu Yi in doing this, shook his head, and said while replying: "I see, Bo Yuan must have been my creditor in his previous life!" ”

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