The next day, Li Xiaoren took Li Bingchang and Li Wu on the expedition, and this expedition to the west can be said to be painstaking! All the high-ranking generals who went out on the expedition were all members of the Li royal family of the Great Xia Kingdom, in fact, the root cause of all this stemmed from the shadow left by Li Liangzuo when he was in power with the Wuzang family, and as time went by, Li Liangzuo found that the Tuoba Li royal family did not occupy many positions in the court, and the rest of the ministers were mostly relatives of the emperor and occupied important positions.

In order to prevent the recurrence of the incident of the dictatorship of foreign relatives, Li Liangzuo needs to promote a large number of members of the imperial family, and at the same time this is also conducive to his own control of the imperial court, now the Han officials in the court of the Great Xia Kingdom occupy more than half, although Li Liangzuo is continuing to implement the policy of sinicization, but after all, Li Liangzuo's body is flowing with the blood of the party people, and now the party people are still the cornerstone of Li Liangzuo's rule of the real Great Xia country, and if you want the stability of the Great Xia Kingdom, you must find a balance between the party nobles and the Han people.

The Western Expedition is an important means for Li Liangzuo to promote the party nobles, in the past in the court for Li Xiaoren and Li Yanzong in a high position quite complained, after all, the two of them are not very credit, but they have been guarding one side, a bit of a sense of unworthy of the name, Li Liangzuo sent the two of them to the west to actually make merit, only the two of them can be justified in their respective positions to stay, unlike the emperors of previous dynasties to guard against their own families, Li Liangzuo promoted members of the royal family, Li Liangzuo is still quite confident in his control.

First of all, the problem of military spending has not been completely solved, for this war Li Liangzuo intends to prepare five million taels of silver, but after these few days of fundraising, Zhou Shengcai also raised one-fifth for Li Liangzuo, there is still a big gap in war funds, in order to make up for the lack of funds Li Liangzuo must think of a feasible way.

"Wechen see Your Majesty." Zhou Shengcai came to Li Liangzuo's side and saluted and said.

Li Liangzuo asked Zhou Shengcai: "Zhou Aiqing, how are the preparations for military spending?" ”

Zhou Shengcai reported to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, I encountered some difficulties, and the progress was not very smooth. ”

As soon as Li Liangzuo saw Zhou Shengcai say this, he knew that the situation was not very good, before Li Liangzuo wanted to ask for money, Zhou Shengcai did not say anything difficult; Zhou Shengcai said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, Weichen has calculated, in fact, this western expedition will not cost five million taels of military expenses at all, and this more than one million taels is almost enough. ”

Li Liangzuo said to Zhou Shengcai: "In fact, I did not raise all this money for this western expedition, I want to get a special military expenditure in case of emergency; Recently, I received information that Song and Liao are expanding their armies again......"

"Your Majesty's meaning is understood." Zhou Shengcai said to Li Liangzuo; "Your Majesty, in fact, Wei Chen still has an idea, if it is done properly, it can add a lot of wealth to the Great Xia Kingdom and the royal family, and it can also become a stable income."

Li Liangzuo's eyes glowed with golden light when he heard this, and said, "What is the solution, Aiqing quickly talk about it." ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen heard that there has always been a kind of paper money popular in the Sichuan and Shu regions of the Great Song Dynasty, if we can also use paper money like the Great Song Dynasty, this is simply a million profits! And it was also possible to collect all the money scattered in the hands of the people. Zhou Shengcai said to Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo listened to Zhou Shengcai say this, his brain immediately lived, in today's social news is very closed, although the issuance of banknotes also has a great risk, but once it succeeds, it is indeed like Zhou Shengcai said a book of ten thousand profits, so that you can raise funds in a very short period of time, once the banknotes are circulated on a large scale, Li Liangzuo knows that the printing is large-scale, and the printing is all white silver!

Li Liangzuo also said very cautiously: "At this time, the stakes are very important, and I need to discuss it with the ministers. ”

In Li Liangzuo's imperial study, these ministers were soon summoned, in fact, there were not many people, including Wei Ge Ning Ling, Nuo Yixiandu, Zhou Wentai, Yang Shousu, Zhou Shengcai and others; Because it was highly confidential at this time, there were very few people who came to see it, and Li Liangzuo knew that although he was the emperor, he couldn't do it with his own strength, so he had to join forces with these ministers.

Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon chair and said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have called you here today not only for official business, but also for some private matters, this matter is related to the interests of the Great Xia Kingdom, I and you, you are all the ministers of my Great Xia Kingdom, and I have been conscientious all these years, and in return I have decided to give you a big gift, as long as the operation is done properly at this time, it can not only solve the financial difficulties of the Great Xia Kingdom, but also bring you a lot of income." ”

As soon as I heard the word 'money', there was a golden light in the eyes of all the ministers, there are few people in the world who do not love money, although money is not omnipotent, but no money is absolutely impossible, and now the emperor is clearly giving you a good opportunity to make money, if you don't grasp it well, there will be no such shop in this village; if Li Liangzuo's behavior this time is characterized, this should be a collective corruption belonging to the ruling class of the country, and the people who are cheated are ultimately those people at the bottom.

Li Liangzuo said to everyone: "I intend to issue a kind of paper money to replace the silver and copper coins that are now circulating in the market, after the issuance of paper money, all silver circulation is prohibited, and copper coins can be circulated in small quantities to meet the needs of paper money; I know that many of you ministers have shops in their homes, and I hope that you will join hands with me to promote the issuance of paper money, and after the issuance of paper money, all the money of the court officials will be distributed in paper money, and the silver will be traded with the nations as foreign exchange reserves......"

Li Liangzuo told everyone about his plan, and the ministers deeply agreed with this, these people are human spirits and will soon be able to understand what Li Liangzuo means, in the Great Xia Kingdom and even the whole world, in fact, there is a huge wealth gap, and none of these ministers, including Emperor Li Liangzuo, have a large amount of private wealth, and these wealth are often fixed assets, such as houses, land, shops, grain, pastures, etc.

As long as Li Liangzuo gets the support of these ministers, the issuance of paper money will be very smooth, as long as the major shops receive paper money, so that the people feel that the paper money is trustworthy and reliable, these people will naturally exchange their hands for silver or copper money into paper money, after all, paper money is more convenient to use, so a large amount of silver will flow into the hands of Li Liangzuo and the ministers sitting there, and Li Liangzuo and others have to pay nothing more than a few pieces of paper and some ink, when the paper money flows into the Great Song Dynasty through commercial use, In the Liao Kingdom and the surrounding countries, the people of these countries had to buy genuine silver and copper coins if they wanted to use paper money; In this way, it became a kind of cash-out, and Li Liangzuo was equivalent to using a pile of worthless paper to exchange a large amount of gold, silver, and other materials from various countries.

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