After pondering for a moment, Gongliang Xiu asked:

"Do you Xianguo want to see death and not save it?"

"Ben Hou didn't say that he would not be saved if he saw death. I came here to ask my brother, will the Zhi Kingdom send troops? ”

"What do you say?" Gongliang Xiu asked rhetorically, looking at Bai Liyan vigilantly, trying to decipher the traces of his heart just now from his face.

"If I say, I guess your Gongliang clan will never send troops, King Zhi has this heart, but he is not worried that your Gongliang army will become bigger. Therefore, King Zhi will not send troops. ”

At this point, Gongliangxiu had nothing to hide, he said:

"If Zhiguo doesn't move, Xu Guo won't move. And the eldest grandson has an alliance with the Jin State, although it was used to deal with my Zhiguo back then, but now that the country is bigger, this covenant is still valid. And your Xianguo is the lower state of the Jin State, and the upper state sends troops, if you don't fight, I'm afraid it won't be justified. But if you send troops from Xianguo, the Jin State will inevitably make you fight with Wei Guo, so I think Yongxing Hou didn't want to send troops either, but that's the case. ”

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan smiled calmly, and then said: "Brother Gongliang, who knows me, finally resolved the danger of bidding, and now it is really difficult for the country to send troops to the Northern Expedition, and it is a dilemma to send troops or not to send troops."

Therefore, I think that Wei Guo must have known that the princes of various countries have evil intentions, so he will not increase his troops to the east, so as to concentrate his troops to defeat the eldest grandson first, and then wait for the troops to come. ”

After listening to it for a long time, Gongliang Xiu didn't hear four, five, or six, but felt that Bailiyan was looking left and right about him, and he never showed his attitude, he simply asked clearly:

"And what do you want?"

"Ben Hou doesn't want to do anything, I just want to know if your country will stab our army in the back at a critical moment."

Gongliang Xiu's face sank when he heard the news:

"This statement is very absurd, our army is very hostile to your Xianguo."

"Don't get excited, as long as Zhiguo doesn't turn back at the critical moment, Ben Hou will have his own way to deal with it at that time. Now, when the envoys arrive in Chenling, my brother will know. ”

Zhiguo has now learned to ride the wall, which side of the wind is strong and which way to fall, it is said that this is also true, the national interest is supreme, but every time the wind becomes too fast, it is inevitable that people will be caught off guard. Therefore, it is inevitable to ask the bottom line of Gongliang cultivation, and you can't share the cake on the front line of Xianguo, and your own cake will be shared.

At this time, Gongliang Xiu pondered Bailiyan's words, and faintly listened to the meaning and understood a little, but also didn't understand, he asked again:

"Are you really going to let the wolf of Weiguo out?"

"No, this wolf is already a knife on the board, a knife a day in the morning and a day in the evening, but you should put more blood before the knife, and it is easy to clean up in the future, so as not to be bitten by it."

"Even if you let the eldest grandson fight to the death, the eldest grandson's infantry army is as weak as a tired egg, and I am afraid that the defense of the country will not be burdened by the eldest grandson as you wish."

"That being said, it's man-made. Although the eldest grandson is a bad man, but the Son of Heaven is not confused, the eldest grandson of the Northern Expedition of the Patriotic Empire this time is actually incompatible with the Liang State, and Liang Tianzi will not sit idly by. ”

"Even if Liang Guo and your country reach a deal to keep enough and give up the shortage, it seems that they have betrayed the country, how do you know that Liang Guo will no longer collude with the country by other means, such things are not uncommon, how can it be easily cut off."

"Yes, Liang Tianzi's reversal is indeed very tricky, and I am also worried that Liang Tianzi will compromise with Wei Guo."

Gongliangxiu was worried that Liang Tianzi nominally accepted the Xianguo to leave enough to give up, and it seemed that he would break with the Wei State, but in fact, it was difficult to say that there would be peace in secret. Even if the Black Turban rebels fought badly with the Liang State back then, the Son of Heaven and the rebels still secretly traded with each other, which shows that the Son of Heaven is no longer as noble as riding a wall, but riding a heavenly horse as he wants.

Bai Liyan pretended to agree, but he was not so worried in his heart, if the Son of Heaven continued to make a deal with Wei Guo secretly, he would have other means to counteract, and the Son of Heaven could only lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

He did not want the eldest grandson to be cut off a large piece of land by the Wei Guo or defeated, but hoped that the Wei Guo would be trapped in the war quagmire of the eldest grandson, and win more peaceful time for the industrial production of the Xian State to expand industrial production capacity.

Being involved in the war too early now is not conducive to the readjustment of the relationship that is changing profoundly in the country, and it is this time that Xianguo lacks, not how he Bailiyan is afraid of defending the country.

At this time, Gongliangxiu suddenly changed his words, and a trace of mystery suddenly appeared on his face, and he whispered:

"Let me ask you, what have you been doing in Yongxing City twice in the past few months? Is it that you have another secret agreement with it, so you are so confident? ”

"Actually, it's nothing, it's something related to leaving enough to give up." As she spoke, Bai Liyan took out a stack of yellow banknotes slightly smaller than A5 from her bosom, which were printed with delicate patterns of indigo, and certain numbers were printed between the patterns, which looked like illustrations in a picture book from a distance.

Gongliang Xiu took the banknote paper handed over and looked at it carefully, and it could be seen that this was a printed pattern, and the paper was more superior, and in addition to the numbers printed on the exquisite patterns, there were also words such as gold, silver, and through.

Seeing this, Gongliang Xiu didn't understand the clues, but his heart was very heavy, so he hurriedly asked:

"What is the purpose of Yongxing Hou printing this kind of painting paper, and why is it printed with words such as gold and silver?"

"Don't hide it from the good brother, this is a money ticket, and it is one of the shortcomings of the Xian country. In the future, the Xianguo will issue different amounts of gold, silver and copper money stamps, and the amount printed on the money stamps is the amount that can be exchanged from the money shop, and the amount saved can be redeemed, so as to replace part of the gold and silver circulation. ”

After half a year of preparation, the paper, ink, engraving required for printing money stamps are basically solved, the paper is mixed with cotton and linen fiber and pulp, and the chemical agent is added to make it durable and easy to preserve, with the special feel of the paper, it has a strong anti-counterfeiting, and it is almost impossible to imitate such high-grade paper when papermaking is not yet popular.

The ink uses some of the raw materials of rubber paint and dyes produced in Gikoku, and undergoes post-chemical treatment to make it print on banknote paper with a unique color sense and reflection. Although the printing process is not more delicate than the modern banknote printing motherboard, but at the moment want to imitate, there is almost no technical space, at least this batch of engraving workmanship is very fine, the anti-counterfeiting part needs to be engraved and processed under high magnification, only this level can not pass at all.

Finally, on the reverse side of the money stamp, the words "Xianguo Treasury and Treasury" and how to distinguish anti-counterfeiting are printed, so as to ensure the national credit of the money ticket to the public opinion.

In order to cooperate with the circulation of money bills in China in the future, Qianfang has successively set up branches in large cities that have not yet opened Qianfang to transfer funds in the past six months, and formally established a central reserve and local reserve system to prevent economic and financial risks caused by the run.

Bai Liyan explained the secret of the money ticket in detail, and Gongliang Xiu was stunned, in his opinion, gold and silver are all spot, how can they be counted on a blank piece of paper.

"You're not crazy, you can print a few large numbers on a piece of paper, and you can use it as money, how can you convince the world. Taking a step back, printing is easier than making money, and if you print such stamps on a large scale, how will the world know how much gold and silver you are waiting for. ”

"Gongliang Xiu is worthy of being a great talent who has helped the people through the world, and this statement is exactly to the point. It is true that money stamps are indiscriminately printed, but have you ever thought that gold and silver circulation will always be defective over time, not to mention that some people are maliciously making them short of two, this is one of them?

Second, the weight of gold, silver and copper coins is heavy, the larger the amount, the transfer is extremely inconvenient, the princes can transfer gold and silver transactions by a large army through water, land transport, and those big merchants and local magnates, if they want to carry the transfer of gold and silver, they must also send guards to escort it, but the number is far from being comparable to the princes' army.

Now that the army is in chaos, the horse thieves and bandits in some places are as few as a dozen or dozens of people, and as many as hundreds or thousands of people, how can ordinary business and wealthy families be their opponents. With a money ticket, one person can carry the transaction. It can not only trade with the Xianguo money shop, but also trade back and forth between the money tickets, so I don't know how much trouble it will save.

Finally, there is a law for printing money stamps in our Xian country, and money stamps cannot be printed indiscriminately, and if the money stamps are greater than gold and silver, it is not beneficial to our Xian country, so why should our country damage others and indiscriminately print money stamps. ”

Paper money has many advantages, the only downside is that it is more convenient to issue additional money than to mint coins. The excess issuance of banknotes produces inflation most of the time, but in addition to the wear and tear caused by the inconvenience of transportation, because there is only an indirect exchange rate between precious metals and copper coins, copper coins cannot be traded as commodities and can only circulate in the middle and lower classes of society.

The output of precious metals is restricted by minerals and cannot be produced in large quantities, so when the commodity economy expands on a large scale, the money supply cannot keep up, which will lead to an indirect shortage of money supply, which in turn will greatly stimulate deflation, and deflation is more terrible than the result of inflation.

In a sense, the emergence of paper money is the inevitable result of the increase in commodity economy and productivity, and the emergence of paper money is an economic tool born for the breeding of service and production relations.

In order to promote the circulation of banknotes, Bailiyan has formulated the law on the issuance and printing of money bills in conjunction with the Money Fang, the Department of Taxation, the Department of Taxation and the Department of Internal Affairs, and the Department of Politics and Economics of Yongxing University Hall, so as to standardize the issuance and printing of signed bills with quantitative data and systems.

At present, copper coins and precious metals are still the main trading tools, and money bills are only used as auxiliary tools for trading, and it is unrealistic to hope that they will become the main trading tools, and it will still take time for the market and the princes to recognize.

Secondly, Bailiyan has no intention of issuing a large number of money bills in a short period of time, so the total amount of gold and silver money bills will not exceed 20 percent of the reserves.

Finally, paper money to become a transaction currency is the inevitable trend of the development of the commodity economy, the current need for market promotion and recognition, a small amount of issuance can be conducive to the establishment of market credit, for the future issuance of a large number of banknotes to provide reference data and consumption habits.

At the same time, when the market gradually discovers the benefits of signing money bills, fewer money bills will become the bills sought after by the market, so that money bills are no longer just simple transaction vouchers, but have bills that can be invested or even bought and sold.

Because of the scarcity of money and the convenience of transfer payment, the risk of traditional manpower carrying and transportation is greatly reduced, and the transfer of large amounts of gold and silver by individuals no longer needs to be escorted by guards or even hired military forces for long-distance escort.

As a result, the discount market for money stamps will generate huge profits every year, and the Xianguo has the right to print and circulate the money stamps, so as to establish an underground market, and the discount profits generated in the future will flow more into the pockets of the Xianguo and become gray income.