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Since eating the first piece of duck meat, several people have had a great appetite, and with this refreshing beer, they can't stop at all, cup after cup, talking freely, and they are very happy.

At the same time, they also deeply experienced the unparalleled side effects in this world, that is, the belly was swollen and urinated a lot, and after a while, several people went to the thatched house two or three times in a row, and felt a little tired, so they started the intermission. However, why this new style of world peerless is so special also aroused the curiosity of Song Huizong and others. Song Huizong asked, "Li Qi, what are you brewing like the world's unparalleled?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "The rest is about the same, the key is to add a special material, that is, Hubu." ”

"Kubu?"

Cai Jing was surprised: "Isn't that a medicinal herb, and it can also make wine?" ”

Li Qi nodded and said, "Yes, I also found it by accident." ”

Li Bangyan said: "As soon as this wine comes out, you Drunken Immortal Residence will definitely make a lot of money." ”

Liang Shicheng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Li Qi shook his head and said in a low-key manner: "Zuo Xiang doesn't know, although this wine is good, but Kubu is limited, and no matter how good it sells, it won't make too much money." ”

Cai Jing said: "What's so difficult about this, don't you have a variety of points." ”

Li Qi smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I don't plan to plant it in China, but put it in Western Xia to plant." ”

"What?"

Several people exclaimed at the same time.

Song Huizong hurriedly asked, "Why is this?" ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "First, according to my observation, Western Xia is more suitable for planting this cloth, and second, hehe, big official, do you still remember the weight of "Guanzi"? ”

Cai Jing's eyes widened, and he seemed to understand something, and said: "What you are talking about is not the strategy of Lu Liang, the plan of Lyric, and the plan of Bailu. ”

Song Huizong fainted, but he was full of poetry and books, and said: "In order to weaken the Lu State and the Liang State, the Qi State deliberately bought the silk of the two countries at a high price; In order to weaken the country of Lai and the country of Borage, he deliberately bought firewood from the two countries at a high price; In order to weaken the Dai State and the Chu State, he deliberately bought the fox white skin of the Dai State and the live deer of the Chu State at a high price. In this way, the monarchs and people of Lu, Liang, Lai, Borage, Dai, Chu and other countries really fell for it, and they gave up farming one after another to weave silk, cut wood, hunt foxes, and deer, while Qi took the opportunity to vigorously develop grain production and increase the grain reserves of the country and the people. After a period of time, Qi stopped buying each other's goods, and at the same time implemented a retreat, not selling grain to the other party, so that the price of grain in various countries skyrocketed, but the price of grain in Qi was very low, so a large number of people defected to Qi State, and the national strength of each country was greatly weakened, and finally had to express surrender to Qi State, and Qi Huan Gong also became a generation of overlords. ”

This remark is also a classic in the economic circles of later generations, Li Qi studied economics, naturally he has heard it, nodded and smiled: "Yes, in fact, my Great Song Dynasty can also follow this method, and use this as a temporary strategy against neighboring countries, slowly weakening their national strength and making them submit." And my Great Song Dynasty also has a unique advantage, that is, currency, my Great Song currency is also exactly what they need, if they see that this thing can be exchanged for a lot of currency, they will definitely be fooled. ”

After hearing this, several people fell into deep thought.

Cai Jing stroked his beard and nodded: "The agriculture of Western Xia has always been inferior to my country, and I have to buy grain from my Great Song Dynasty every year. ”

As he spoke, a glint flashed across his eyes.

Li Qi smiled and said: "The people take food as the sky, that is to say, food is the foundation of the country, if we hold the food of other countries, then it is equivalent to holding their lifeblood, let alone surrender at that time, we can rub the round and pinch flat, as long as we are happy." ”

Li Bangyan smiled: "This method seems to be really feasible. ”

Cai Jing immediately grasped the key point and nodded: "It is absolutely feasible." "He is not an incompetent person, the reason why he is called a traitor is not because he is mediocre, but because he is too shrewd, although his changes are not good for the people, but he does not intend to enrich the people, his purpose is to please Song Huizong and make money for Song Huizong, and he has done it, but this is just killing chickens and taking eggs.

Song Huizong was an emperor who was very happy, of course he envied the status of Qi Huan Gong's overlord, and hurriedly asked: "Li Qi, you can tell us in detail." ”

"Yes." Li Qi nodded and smiled: "Fang Cai Zuo Xiang also said, this kind of unparalleled in the world wants to sell big, it is not just on paper, and the unparalleled in the world is also deeply loved in other countries, all in all, the only one in the world, don't worry about not being able to sell, even if the whole country of Western Xia is planted with Kubu, I dare to take all the orders, and I can also give them a very good price, because the unparalleled in the world is not cheap." If our country encourages the import of Kubu, they will be able to use Kubu to exchange it for our Great Song Dynasty currency, and then they will definitely encourage farmers to plant Kubu, and when Kubu is delivered, I will brew wine and sell it to all parts of the country, and this currency will be back again. When the landlords of Western Xia saw that Hubu was so profitable, they would definitely reduce their fields step by step and increase the number of plants in Hubu, so that their national strength would definitely be weakened. ”

Cai Jing said: "But if you want to succeed, my Great Song must also sell grain to the outside world." ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "What Taishi said is true, but it can be said in another way, it is called grain invasion." ”

"Food invasion?" Song Huizong was surprised.

Li Qi nodded and said: "Grain invasion can't help but achieve the effect of making the Quartet surrender, and it can also change the situation of grain valuation in my Great Song Dynasty." ”

Cai Jing said: "What does this have to do with grain merchants? ”

Li Qi said: "I am the world's largest agricultural country in the Song Dynasty, and this is my advantage, and the phenomenon of food shortage should not be." ”

When Song Huizong heard this, his face was slightly displeased, you say that, don't you mean that it's all my fault.

Liang Shicheng, who is good at observing words and feelings, hurriedly said: "You can't say that, fighting a war will naturally consume food, and there will be natural disasters, which are unpredictable. ”

"Tai Wei is right, Li Qi's words are inappropriate, forgive sins, forgive sins." Li Qi also reacted, quickly bypassed the topic, and continued: "As a grain merchant, he hoards goods, which is understandable, but this grain is different from ordinary commodities, but it is a matter of life, and if you treat your people so hatefully, it is unreasonable, and there is a way that it is very expensive and hurts the people; It is very cheap and hurts the peasants. If the people are injured, they will be scattered, and if the peasants are injured, the country will be poor. This is very contradictory, if we want to solve it, we must transfer this situation to foreign countries, hoard foreign grain, speculate on foreign grain, when the Great Song Dynasty and other countries harvest, the imperial court stepped up reserves at the same time, but also can encourage merchants to buy peasants' grain, first, to ensure that the grain is not cheaply sold, second, if there is a disaster in our country, you can calmly go to the disaster relief, third, once a food crisis breaks out in other countries, this price can be decided by us, those grain merchants like to speculate as high as they want, In this way, those big landlords will not oppose the new policies of the imperial court, and it is not easier to earn money from other countries. ”

Song Huizong said: "Wouldn't this be too immoral." ”

Li Qi said: "Great official, what about which overlord has taught morality to the subjects of other countries?" The people of our country just support the big officials. Moreover, the imperial court only needs to manipulate behind the scenes, and let the businessmen do it if there is no moral matter, and the businessmen love to do it anyway. As long as all the food is controlled, then it is equivalent to controlling all the people. The peace strategy of our Great Song Dynasty has always been very correct, and in peacetime, the Great Song Dynasty is invincible, because the two hegemonic means other than war, commerce and agriculture, have always been in our hands. Moreover, in fact, speculating on the grain of various countries is only the first step. ””

Cai Jing sighed and said, "What about the second step?" ”

Li Qi said: "If the first step is successful, then the agriculture of other countries will be in a low period, and we can take this opportunity to destroy their agriculture and let these small agricultural countries grow all kinds of fruits and vegetables, and the grain will be grown by us. In this way, we can dominate them with food, in exchange for whatever benefits we need, because no country can live without food. ”

Cai Jing said: "But this qiē is based on the fact that my Great Song Dynasty has enough food. ”

Li Qi nodded and said: "What Taishi said is good, so while we weaken the agriculture of other countries, we must strengthen the agricultural development of our Great Song Dynasty, encourage women to participate in farmland irrigation, reduce excess agricultural taxes, and the grain is not cheap, if it is too much, sell it directly to the big grain merchants, when they have enough grain in their hands, they can use a series of commercial means to sell the grain to foreign countries at sky-high prices. ”

Song Huizong said: "Then you say, how should we develop agriculture." ”

Li Qi said: "Focus on rectifying the agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River, give the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River the most relaxed system, and for the various governments in the south of the Yangtze River, the output of grain will be taken as the primary criterion for the evaluation of political performance, so as to build the south of the Yangtze River into the world's first granary in the shortest possible time." In the north, the focus is on economic development, the implementation of an open policy for merchants, the imperial court can support more than a dozen multinational grain merchants, specifically encourage them to import grain from abroad, for our Great Song Dynasty vassal state, we can even send merchants to their country to buy land and hire farmers to plant, all the grain back to China. ”

In fact, Li Qi's strategy has been thinking for a long time, in addition to geographical reasons, it is to prevent the change of Jingkang, economically, businessmen can run away with money, and the loss will not be very large, but you can't run with farmland, once there is a war, the loss is immeasurable, in addition, if there is a war in the north, Jiangnan can act as a reinforcement, because of this, he will try his best to reduce the pressure on the people in Jiangnan.

Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng were very moved when they heard this, they are all super big landlords, if the imperial court wants to cultivate big grain merchants, they must be among them, or that sentence, if you control the grain, then you control all the people, if you can control most of the grain in a country, then your position will be more stable.

However, Song Huizong showed a trace of hesitation on his face.

Li Bangyan expressed the worry in Song Huizong's heart in one word, and said: "In this way, it may cause the phenomenon of the people being rich and the court being poor." ”

This is really not alarmist, the reason why the annual income of the Song court can crown the previous dynasties is because of taxes, if as Li Qi said, most of the taxes are exempted, the court may show signs of bankruptcy, because the Song Dynasty officials are also quite scary, and Song Huizong is not a thrifty emperor.

Li Qi said: "The imperial court has important resources such as salt, tea, wine, etc., and has the currency common to the Zhou State, how can it be poor, as long as it can clear the officialdom, solve the phenomenon of three redundancies, eliminate the excess burden, and then rectify the currency, create a currency equal to or higher than the value of copper itself, and enhance the circulation of currency, then, poor will only poor other countries, will not be poor us, as long as the imperial court changes the amount of currency reserves slightly according to our situation, it is equivalent to obtaining an intangible wealth, The neighboring countries will also pay for the policy of my Great Song Dynasty, who told them to use our currency, just imagine, if the food and currency are in our hands, then all the property in the world is still in our hands, for the benefit of our own people, to extort the people of other countries, just ask such a 'poor court', can the people not like it, my Great Song Dynasty will also be unified by this, no, unified the country, thousands of generations. ”

Shameless! It's so shameless! I like it though.

Song Huizong's heart was overjoyed, and he began to fantasize, if I could buy a hundred sheep in Xixia with a copper coin, but Xixia would buy me a pound of tea with a thousand yuan, it would be really wonderful. Haha said: "Yes, yes, the court is a moneymaker, how can it be short of money." Richie, you're a true profiteer. ”

This sounds a little weird. Li Qi said depressedly: "Uh, big official, are you praising or belittling?" ”

"Praise, praise, of course it is praise, if I am a merchant in the Great Song Dynasty and everyone is like you, why worry that the people are not rich and the country is not strong. You are a loyal and patriotic profiteer. ”

Depend on! That's still a profiteer! (To be continued)