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From the expression on Song Huizong's face, it is not difficult to see that he is very interested in Li Qi's new education, and he has asked about every detail, especially about the genius college.

In fact, the education method of the genius college, simply put, is to shorten the general education method by a few years, because for the real geniuses, they don't need to waste too much time on some basic skills, so the students of the genius college, after primary school, will directly divide the major, and it is mainly in science, after all, the liberal arts are already insurmountable, and the literature of the ancients is really not to be underestimated. His tentative goal is to train a group of scientists. Later, Li Qi also took out one or two genius test questions, which dispelled Song Huizong's curiosity.

After talking about this matter, Song Huizong talked with them about the work of closing the trade negotiations, after all, this was also one of the themes in the previous interview.

Speaking of this, Cai Jing suddenly remembered something, and said: "Emperor Qiqi, regarding this trade negotiation, the old minister has some ideas, which may be able to help me change the current situation of the money shortage in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Li Qi was shocked when he heard it, and cheered up, now currency is a very sensitive thing, once there is any difference, the economy of the Great Song Dynasty will collapse, and his new law will also perish, because currency can be said to be a support point of his new law, if it is well controlled, it will be able to make a lot of money, once it gets out of control, then I am afraid it will be destitute.

Song Huizong was stunned at first, and then hurriedly said, "Aiqing speak quickly." ”

Cai Jing said: "Your Majesty, do you still remember Qin Hui's strategy to solve the money shortage in the south of the Yangtze River?" ”

Song Huizong thought for a while, didn't know why, nodded and said, "I naturally remember that Qin Hui told a lie that made those rich merchants anxious to take out the copper coins. This alleviated the crisis of money shortage in Jiangnan, although it was suspected of cheating, but it was harmless. ”

Cai Jing nodded and said, "Not bad." Qin Hui originally said that the imperial court would replace copper coins with silver. When Lao Chen heard it at the time, he felt that this lie was not unrealizable. But because of the lack of gold and silver mines in my Great Song Dynasty, the old minister did not say it. However, this trade negotiation made my ministers feel that this method could really be tried, and the trade between Dashi, Byzantium, Japan and other countries and our Great Song Dynasty was almost all gold and silver, and copper was only a minority. As long as we maintain a steady business relationship with these countries, then it is an indication that we will have a stable income from gold and silver, so that the imperial court can mint money and silver. It can be used to make up for the shortage of copper coins, which can completely solve the shortage of money, which is of great benefit to the court and the people, and can also promote the promotion of the new law. Count it all in one fell swoop. ”

Song Huizong listened silently, but he was very excited and very tempted, minting coins is simply a huge profit for the imperial court. Once money and silver money are introduced, the imperial court will definitely make another big profit. But seeing that Li Qi was silent, he asked, "Li Qi, what do you think?" ”

Li Qi was slightly stunned, and secretly thought, Cai Lao is Cai Lao Cai, worthy of being a currency master, this can indeed alleviate the currency crisis, but doing so at present, this is simply self-destruction. replied: "Back to the emperor's words, the Taishi's words, Weichen thinks it's okay, but." ”

Cai Jing saw that Li Qi wanted to speak and stopped, knowing that Li Qi was worried about his face, he was not so disobedient at his current age, and he had always attached great importance to Li Qi's opinion, and said with a smile: "Li Qi, what do you say, the old man is just proposing a proposal." ”

"Yes."

Li Qi nodded and continued: "But Wechen thinks that it is not the time yet, Wechen has said more than once that the strongest point of our Great Song Dynasty economy is the monetary advantage. Taishi is right, now we do get a stable supply of gold and silver by buying and selling, but money is a commodity, in other words, this gold and silver is purchased by us from others, if we use gold and silver as currency now, then it is equivalent to giving the advantage of my Great Song to others. Nowadays, we rely on currency to control the economy of other countries, and when the time comes, they can also use gold and silver to control the economy of our Great Song Dynasty, and we will also lose the initiative because of this, which is extremely unfavorable to the economy of our Great Song Dynasty, and once there is a lack of supply, the economy will suffer great damage. ”

If it weren't for Li Qi being here, with Cai Jing and Song Huizong's urine, it is estimated that this matter would really have happened, because they only have the interests of the imperial court in their eyes.

Cai Jing is not a domineering person, he humbly accepted Li Qi's proposal, nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, but the old man owes it to consideration." ”

Song Huizong was puzzled: "You said that it is not yet time, so when will you be able to mint gold and silver coins?" ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "Wait until my Great Song Dynasty controls the gold and silver mines that are enough to support the economic development of my Great Song Dynasty, and then we can issue gold and silver coins, but this is indeed a good way to solve the money shortage, and we can take precautions." ”

Cai Jing hurriedly asked, "How to prepare for a rainy day?" ”

Li Qi replied: "So far, gold and silver in my Great Song Dynasty circulation is very small, not only that, even in Japan, where there are plenty of gold and silver mines, they are also using the currency of our Great Song Dynasty, and even often use gold and silver in exchange for our Great Song currency, this is a good opportunity, we can first devalue the value of gold and silver, when the value of gold and silver falls and underestimates, we will take advantage of the low absorption, slowly accumulate, and when the time comes, we will launch gold and silver money, once gold and silver become the mainstream currency, the value must be several times, or even more, I use the gold recovered at polar prices, convert it into expensive currency, and then push it to neighboring countries, and I won't say much about the profits. ”

Song Huizong was excited for a while and applauded repeatedly.

Cai Jing also expressed extreme excitement, but then asked, "But how can we devalue gold and silver?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "We who control the currency, there are really too many ways, copper itself has a lot of uses, can be made into copper mirrors, can be made into weapons, etc., now prices are based on copper, but gold and silver are different, at most it is made of gold and silver jewelry, these are not the necessities of people's lives, just a symbol of luxury, gold and silver are expensive, expensive is rare, unlike copper can directly affect prices, and even the entire economic system, since it is not a necessity of life." Then there is a lot of room for maneuvering. For now, the value of gold and silver is decreasing because the value of our Great Song currency has increased. The value of copper has also increased, relatively speaking. The value of gold and silver must have decreased, and not only that, but the imperial court could also use policies to boycott gold and silver, for example, in the past, tariffs could be paid with gold and silver, if the imperial court issued a policy to refuse to accept gold and silver. Then it indicates that the use of gold and silver will be further reduced, and money is for convenience, and since this gold and silver cannot provide convenience, then its value will naturally decrease. Similar to this method. Whatever you say, there are more than a dozen kinds, and then we can belittle gold and silver, and at the same time secretly absorb and slowly hoard them. for later use,"

Song Huizong nodded and said, "I understand." After a pause, he added, "But even so, is the gold and silver still under the control of others?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "Your Majesty, I am short of gold and silver mines in the Great Song Dynasty. Weichen thinks that it is not really lacking to this point, there must be something that has not been found, but the technology is not enough to excavate, so, firstly, we can increase the number of people, develop mining technology, and develop more gold and silver mines, and secondly, even if we don't, Japan has it, Dali has it! ”

"Japan? Dali? ”

Song Huizong looked at Li Qi in surprise.

Cai Jing frowned and said, "Li Qi, you don't want to send troops to Dali and Japan, right?" ”

Li Qi shook his head and said: "Of course not, my Great Song Dynasty is currently in the stage of recuperation, and I have no qualifications to send troops at all, but Taishi should not forget it, now there are some people in these two countries who must rely on our Great Song Dynasty, although our Great Song Dynasty is said to be a country of gentlemen, but a gentleman is not equal to a good person, and if you want to do good, it will only be good for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, for these countries, I think it is better to be clear, we help them, naturally we can't help in vain, when the time comes, once the political situation in their country changes, We have the opportunity to take advantage of the fire -- well, I should say that we are looking for a reasonable return, such as helping them mine gold and silver. ”

Although China is not a big gold and silver producer, but it is not as little as people know at present, just because many of them are in the ground, the current technology is still difficult to develop, but Japan during this period is a large gold and silver producer, before the discovery of the Americas, it can even be said that it is the first gold and silver producing country, due to volcanic reasons, Japan's gold and silver minerals are very rich, and most of them are in the surface layer, but it is precisely because of this that the guide zhì was mined prematurely, overused, and later, Europeans entered Japan, Japan directly used trade to get all of it, a large amount of gold and silver outflow, gold and silver mines dried up, but China, as a neighboring country, did not get any cheap.

However, Li Qi will never allow this situation to happen again, he can't be cheaper Westerners, he must be cheaper neighbors, and he will try his best to plunder Japan's gold and silver mines, and one of the important reasons is that so far, gold and silver are really the best way to solve the currency crisis of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although Li Qi's economic construction has alleviated the currency shortage crisis in a certain way, you must know that this only prompted businessmen to put copper coins into the market, and did not increase the currency, in short, the Great Song Dynasty is still in the currency crisis, just because the Great Song Dynasty economy is now in recession, the economic system has not yet fully operated, it seems that the currency crisis has been solved, in fact, once the new law is successful, the Great Song Dynasty economy will have a qualitative leap, and when the time comes, this currency will definitely not be enough to support the economy of the Great Song Dynasty. Because the quantity of goods will be much higher than that of currency.

The only way to solve the problem is to increase the currency, but the Great Song Dynasty coinage has reached the limit, it is difficult to have more room for improvement, think about it, this iron, tin, and even paper money are used to fill the number, it is conceivable that this currency is so small.

However, copper as a currency, one of the big drawbacks, that is, copper will be corroded, a copper coin used for a few years, it will become half a piece, which is an invisible loss for the Great Song Dynasty, and it is inevitable, you let Japan, Xixia earn, then you can find a way to earn back, but you let the air to "earn", who do you want to go, gold and silver relative to copper, this situation will not occur, which is why gold and silver coins are more suitable as currency than copper.

However, suitable does not mean that it is applicable, Li Qi also thought about making money through guò trade gold and silver, and then using gold and silver as currency, but he couldn't do this, this is the same as knowing that there is little currency, or gritted his teeth to lift the money ban, and forcibly implemented the circulation of the Great Song Dynasty currency, his purpose is to lay a strategy for the Great Song Dynasty currency to dominate Asia, and use currency to control the economy of other countries, no matter what, he must not lose his currency advantage, to put it mildly. Dead have to pull a few pads. Therefore, when he does not get enough gold and silver mine support, he will never use his brain. As an economic power, if the currency still needs to rely on others. Then what qualifications do you have to be called an economic power, the status, circulation and popularization of currency are the expression of a country's economy.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Qi will be friendly with Japanese samurai, he really thinks about Japan's gold and silver, and he is about to go crazy, if it weren't for the catastrophe that the Great Song Dynasty would face this year. He wants to get his hands on Japan's gold and silver now.

Song Huizong stroked his beard and said, "Help them mine?" ”

Li Qi nodded and said, "Yes, we can adopt a cooperative approach to win the right to mine and choose gold and silver mines in their country." In other words, we help them to dig up, and the gold and silver that are dug up still belong to them in theory, but they have to be sold to us. As for the price, of course you have to give a friendly price, otherwise, you can't talk about it, and I don't think they will refuse such a good thing. ”

Cai Jing's cloudy eyes. A glimmer of light flashed, although what Li Qi said was very ambiguous, but he knew that with Li Qi's character, this transaction must make several times the profit, otherwise he would definitely not use his brain. Haha: "Okay! That's a great idea! No wonder you are friendly to the envoys of Japan and Dali, it turns out that you have a plan for a long time, and it seems that you are very sure. ”

Song Huizong nodded and said: "If you want to talk about trading, who is Li Qi's opponent, this thing is absolutely feasible." In the past, whenever there was a shortage of money, I always wanted to mine more copper to make up for the lack of copper, but now it seems that it is wrong, don't they like to use my Great Song currency, since they are unkind, then do not blame us for our injustice, I will take raw materials from them, and then mint them into coins and sell them to them. ”

At this point, he was in a good mood and burst out laughing.

A few people talked about this matter for a while, if you want this strategy to succeed, then you must have the self-control of the army, the southeast army against Japan has begun to be rectified, so Li Qi to Song Huizong built yì, and so Jiangnan relieved this breath, immediately rectified the southwest army specially used to target Dali and Jiaozhi, because there was gold and silver as bait in front, therefore, Song Huizong quickly approved, but his approval could not be counted, this matter had to be discussed with the Privy Council and the three divisions, but with the support of the emperor, Li Qi also had a grasp in his heart.

After a while, Cai Jing had business to deal with, so he retired first, Li Qi originally wanted to go with him, but Song Huizong kept him.

As soon as Cai Jing left, Song Huizong's face suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice: "How did I let you do?" Those people are so hateful! I endured in every way, but in exchange for their gains! ”

Li Qi was surprised: "Your Majesty, what happened?" ”

Song Huizong's face was gloomy, and he snorted: "It's not just those courtiers of mine, they are really becoming more and more presumptuous, lawless, and even dare to interfere in my harem, and impeach my concubine for extravagance and collection of money from ministers without evidence, which is really hateful." ”

Since the last time the imperial court began to advocate honesty and anti-corruption, Song Huizong is undoubtedly the biggest victim, how much he can see with a pair of eyes, but the Manchu Dynasty civil and military can all look at him, speaking of it, it is really a little unfair.

In fact, the Song Dynasty was quite enlightened, and those officials even dared to point their noses at the emperor and reprimand them, not to mention the concubines. Moreover, Song Huizong is an amorous emperor, once which concubine is favored by him, the status in the court will definitely increase, so, the power of the harem is very strong, otherwise, Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng will not regard those concubines as their fathers and mothers, and they don't know how much money to send to the harem during the New Year's holidays, which shows that the harem is actually part of the dispute between friends, in fact, this is thanks to Empress Zheng pressing behind, otherwise, when encountering such an emperor as Song Huizong, the harem has to be turned upside down, in this case, They will also be the target of hostile attacks.

No way! Who is so short-sighted, this is the son of Qinglou, you impeach his concubine, isn't this looking for death. Li Qi didn't dare to make too much comment on this matter, but said: "Then I don't know what the emperor means?" ”

Song Huizong snorted angrily: "I naturally have to fight back, otherwise if it goes on like this, they will have to ride on my head." By the way, how much evidence have you gathered? ”

Li Qi said: "This is not a lot. But I don't know how the emperor used this evidence to fight back. ”

Song Huizong glanced at him angrily, and said: "You still need to ask, you give it to me, tomorrow in the morning, I will come to the roll call one by one." ”

So fierce? It seems that he is really crazy this time! Li Qiwei groaned and said, "Your Majesty." Weichen thought that it was a little inappropriate to do this, if the emperor directly read out the evidence in front of the Manchu Dynasty. This will make people feel that the emperor is declaring war on the ministers of the court. At that time, it is inevitable that there will be another big storm. ”

Song Huizong's eyebrows gradually moved closer to the middle, his resolute gaze became a little hesitant, knowing what Fang Cai said, he was indeed a little inconsiderate, and asked, "Then according to your meaning, what should it be?" ”

Li Qi said: "Return to the emperor." In fact, Wei Chen has also thought about this problem seriously, and thinks that it is better to let them fight in their own nests, and the emperor will reap the benefits of the fisherman. This is the best policy. ”

Song Huizong said: "How to let them fight in the nest? ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "It's very simple, as long as these evidences are released, there will naturally be people who sue in front of the emperor, which minister in the court does not have an enemy, and the emperor only needs to be a favor at that time." Just deal with it impartially. ”

Song Huizong listened to it and said, "Your idea is really bad, but I like it." Ha ha! -- But how do you get this evidence out, yes, yes? You can put it on the Great Song Times Weekly! ”

"It's-!"

Li Qi looked embarrassed.

Song Huizong squinted his eyes and said, "Isn't there something difficult for you?" ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "For Weichen, how can there be difficulties in the things ordered by the emperor, but this Great Song Times Weekly belongs to the Taishi, if you put those news on it, it is inevitable that some people will say that this is the Taishi is crowding out different parties, and the Taishi will definitely complain about Weichen when he arrives." ”

"You're right." Song Huizong said a little depressed: "But this doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?" ”

Li Qi pretended to think for a while and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen has a plan, but I don't know what the emperor means?" ”

Song Huizong sighed and said, "As long as you can help me get out of this evil breath, it's easy to say anything." ”

Li Qi said: "Weichen is thinking, why don't you start a newspaper yourself, Your Majesty, so that you can post whatever content you want on it!" ”

Song Huizong raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "That's right! I didn't think of that. As he spoke, he shook his head again and said, "No, no, what is the difference between this and reading it out in public." ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "The difference is big, the emperor you don't need to come forward, you just need to support the back, as long as Kaifeng Mansion does not arrest people and does not prevent the distribution of this newspaper, then it will be fine." ”

Song Huizong pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay, good!" Just do it, you do it quietly, you don't have to worry too much, I will help you secretly, and no one dares to embarrass you. ”

Li Qi sang: "Weichen takes the order." ”

Song Huizong said excitedly: "What kind of evidence do you have there, who should be the first to be used for the operation." ”

Li Qi smiled: "This first person, Weichen has already thought about it." ”

"Oh? Come on. ”

"It's Weichen."

"What?"

Song Huizong exclaimed in surprise and looked at Li Qi incredulously.

Li Qi explained: "This Weichen is also to avoid suspicion, otherwise others will definitely think that this is Weichen's doing, then the emperor as long as you don't punish corporal punishment, just punish a few years of Yulu, for the emperor, these few years of Yulu is nothing, the big deal is to tighten the belt of your pants, you won't die of hunger." ”

Song Huizong glared at him and said, "You don't want to fool me here, a few years is nothing to you." Saying that, he laughed wickedly and said, "But for others, it is not less, but I have wronged you." ”

Li Qi said: "Being able to do things for the emperor is a blessing for Weichen, how can he be wronged." ”

"You kid!"

Song Huizong pointed at Li Qi and smiled, the potential meaning is, you kid is too sensible! Then he asked, "What is this newspaper called?" ”

Li Qi thought for a while and said, "How about calling it Banana Daily?" ”

"Banana Daily? Why is it called that? ”

"Because it's lewd enough-no, because it's popular enough, so they don't want the emperor to go up!"

"Uh-huh." Song Huizong rubbed his chin and said: "This name is a bit popular, but after reading it twice, it feels smooth, okay, it's called Banana Daily, the more you read it, the more smooth it is, haha!" ”

(To be continued)