Xuzhou, the backyard of Da Song Bank.

In Su Shi's study, the two brothers looked at each other silently. Today, Su Shi didn't even go to the bank building, but just stayed in his study, holding an edict, flipping through it and looking at it carefully, and he didn't know how long he had been reading it. His brother Su Chi sat facing him, just sighing.

The room was silent, except for the sound of sighing.

In the end, Su Shi shook his hand, put the paper edict on the table, pressed his temple with a fat hand, and sighed deeply: "These retro party members don't want to give the merchants of the eight states and one country in the southeast a life...... actually wanted to remove the mountains of gold and silver and copper coins in the Great Song Bank...... This is the foundation of a bank!

The commerce and trade of the eight southeastern states and one country are prosperous, and the transactions are huge, and the transfer of money can only be carried out through the bank, and the merchants are also accustomed to depositing their capital in the bank to eat some interest. If you need a large amount of money to use for your business, you will also ask the bank for a loan. And the foundation of the banking industry in the southeast is the gold, silver and copper mountains that exist in the Great Song Bank! If this is emptied, the banking industry of the eight southeastern states and one country will collapse, and then will the industrial and commercial industries in the southeast not collapse? The retro party also wanted to relevy commercial taxes in the southeast...... Aren't they afraid of the rebellion of the wealthy merchants in the southeast? ”

Hearing his younger brother mention the "rebellion", Su Chi smiled coldly and said, "They just want to bring down the industry and commerce in the southeast!" Industry and commerce do not collapse, how to implement the policy of cultivating the country? Besides, the retro party has been planned, and it must be based on Guanlong.

Guan Long's side can't rely on industry and commerce! Dingtian is to transport Shu brocade from Sichuan and pull rice grain from Jianghan. What else is the use of Southeast Industry and Commerce? Kill the chicken and get the eggs! As for whether the southeast rebels or not, they won't care! ”

Su Shi shook his head, "Guan Long-oriented? But during the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an also needed the wealth of Jiangnan and Jianghuai. ”

"Isn't that because of the corruption of the government military system?" Su Chi said, "The government soldiers are broken, so we need the wealth of Jiangnan and Jianghuai to recruit soldiers." If the government soldiers are not bad, the barren land of Guanlong can support hundreds of thousands of households, so what is the use of the wealth of Jiangnan and Jianghuai? The gold and silver mountains in the Great Song Bank are just the capital used to appease the Northwest Jiangmen. With their support, the government military system can be implemented in Guanlong. With Guan Long's force, Bashu and Jianghan had no choice but to bow down. ”

"So, are the retro party really retro?"

Su Chi snorted: "It's not that the retro party wants to be really retro, but the new officers and soldiers who support the retro party want to be really retro!" Most of those people are native buns from the northwest...... I don't like the methods of the Restorationists in the Southeast!

This is not just the little interest of silk and cloth! ”

"What else?"

Su Chi said: "There is also an official hat!" Isn't what the eight states and one country in the southeast are planning to use new schools to replace the imperial examination? What they want in the northwest is to replace the imperial examination with military merits! ”

After all, the Great Song Dynasty was an official-based society, and the great profits that the southeast industry and commerce, the northwest military leaders, and the scholars and doctors in various places competed for, first of all, the official hat, and then the money.

If you have an official, are you afraid that you won't have money?

If you have money and no officials, can you keep the money?

The Great Song Dynasty's system of taking scholars, the imperial examination, seemed to be fair, but it was unfavorable to the southeastern industry and commerce and the northwest warlords. So both sides want to abolish it!

Jinshi is a subject, known as the "fifty young jinshi", and those who can be named on the gold list in the year of the weak crown and establishment are all rare geniuses. Those who struggle until they are forty or fifty years old to get what they want are the majority.

And scholars from wealthy industrial and commercial families rarely have the perseverance to study hard all their lives. There are too many temptations for them, and it is too easy for them to extract wealth from industry and commerce. It's hard to keep your ears open to what's going on outside the window and read only the books of the sages.

As for the Northwest Warlord's Gate, not to mention, it's impossible to ignore what is going on outside the window, if you don't hear it, the West Thieves will come over!

Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Shaanxi, Hedong, and Hebei, which were important military towns, have always been in the bottom three in the imperial examination. The three roads, which are the pillars of the country's armed forces, are naturally very unwilling to stumble in the field of science and technology.

If the Jiangmen in the northwest want to get involved with noble civil officials, the best way is of course to abolish the imperial examination system, or change the imperial examination system back to the situation in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and become a supplement to the world election and military merits.

The industry and commerce in the southeast are looking forward to new studies and scholars, and want to use universities to obtain imperial examinations. Because university does not require lifelong hard study, and what you learn is more practical, you can do other things if you can't get into the Jinshi.

Plus, college tuition isn't cheap these days! The wealthy industrialists in the southeast can rely on their financial resources to send a large number of their children to universities, so as to achieve the purpose of monopolizing officialdom.

Su Shi thought about it again and again, and finally shook his head and said, "If it goes on like this, I'm afraid the world will be divided into three points, right?" ”

What he means is that the world will be divided into the Northern Zhou, the Western Song Dynasty, and the Eastern Song Dynasty!

Behind the three countries, each has its own corresponding interest group. The Northern Zhou Dynasty is a country jointly established by farmers and industrial and commercial capital; The Western Song Dynasty belonged to conservative feudal military landlords; The Eastern Song Dynasty belonged to the Southeast Industrial and Commercial Group.

As for the Imperial Examiners...... The world's major events will soon have nothing to do with them!

Su Chi glanced at his younger brother: "It's inevitable that the world will be divided into three, so what about my family?" Most of my uncle's sons were in the Northland...... What about you and me? One East and One West? Or are they all in the east? ”

Su Shi thought for a while, "Big brother, is there a future in the west?" ”

"Not necessarily." Su Chi said, "If there is no future in the west, the north will dominate the world!" ”

Su Shi nodded, "That's right!" Merchants from the east alone could not stop the Northern Zhou...... The eldest brother and the younger brother have been operating in the southeast for many years, and they control the bank, so let's stay in the east. ”

"Then the foolish brother has to go west." Su Chi looked at his brother, "You can't let the foolish brother return empty-handed, right?" ”

"This ......" Su Shi thought for a while, "How much?" ”

Su Chi stretched out a finger: "How about 100 million?" ”

"No, no," Su Shi just shook his head, "Take out 100 million, and Da Song Bank will be empty." Up to 50 million ...... And they all give Xiaoping money, no gold or silver. ”

"That's 50 million!" Su Chi said, "But you can't give it to Zhao Ding." ”

The edict in Su Shi's hand was brought by Zhao Ding, and Zhao Ding wanted to transport all the gold, silver, and copper mountains in the Xuzhou Dasong Bank to Jiangning Mansion by water, and then go west to the Yangtze River and send them to Guanzhong.

This circle is not small!

"No," Su Shi shook his head, "I'm going to give it!"

If you don't give it, how can one country in the eight southeastern states rebel? 50 million were left in Xuzhou, and the rest were all loaded and shipped to Jiangning Fu.

In addition, the eldest brother can invite the county Xuzhou. Let Tong Guan concentrate on the Jingdong war. Wait until the gold and silver transported to Jiangning were intercepted by the men and horses of the King of the North East Sea. The eldest brother will stake Xuzhou's 50 million yuan to the Xinyang army, and he will not be afraid that he will have no place in the Western Dynasty. ”

Tong Guan is now the governor of Xuzhou as the envoy of Jingdong Xuanfu, but the Jingdong war is critical, and Tong Guan is not in Xuzhou, but in Qizhou to supervise the army. Therefore, the matter of knowing Xuzhou is actually vacant, and Su Chi can completely ask for it.

"Take the Huai River to Xinyang?" Su Chi thought for a while, "Can you get by?" ”

"Get by!" Su Shi said, "Tong Guan has placed thousands of Shuo soldiers in Xuzhou, just feed them."

In addition, Xuzhou also has Ji Jun's 2,000 soldiers and horses, and the younger brother can take them to Haizhou to put pressure on the king of the East China Sea. ”

"Good!" Su Chi said, "In order to remove the Donghai Domain, the official family has given me an edict to act cheaply, allowing me to mobilize less than 3,000 soldiers and horses. I will send you to persuade now, and then order Ji Jun to lead troops into Haizhou, so as not to cause trouble in Xuzhou. ”

Ji Jun is Ji Yi's son, and Ji Yi was beaten into a traitor after being assassinated. If it weren't for Ji Jun's 2,000 soldiers and horses, he would have been dismissed from his post long ago - Ji Jun's 2,000 soldiers and horses are said to be newly recruited, but in fact, the core backbone is from the Ji family's maritime merchant fleet, and the ordinary infantry is from the Ji family's tenants in Jiangnan. said that it was a new army, but it was actually a group training of the Ji family!

Although the number of people is not large, on the side of Xuzhou, no one really wants to fight with them.

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"Su Tiju, do you want to lead the troops to support the king of the East China Sea?"

Xuzhou, Jifu. Ji Jun, who hadn't taken off his filial piety clothes yet, looked a little cold, but his tone was quite eager.

Although he has 2,000 troops, there is still a huge Ji family behind him. But if the imperial court really wants to deal with him, it is not without a way.

The thousands of Shuo soldiers that Tong Guan placed in Xuzhou alone are not something that the Ji family's 2,000 regiments can withstand.

"Let's go and stand together!" Su Shi said with a smile, "Your Ji family has Xiuzhou and Suzhou, and our Su family has Quanzhou...... The Xie family has Mingzhou, the Chen family has Guangzhou, Pan Xiao'an now controls Jiangning Mansion, Donghai Kingdom is in the hands of Concubine Wu, and Xuzhou is mostly controlled by the smelter of Li Guojian. That's eight states...... If we can escort the King of the East China Sea to Jiangning Mansion, as long as we can intercept the gold and silver shipped out of Xuzhou, how can we set up an Eastern Song Dynasty in Jiangnan, right? ”

"Establish a country in Jiangnan?" Ji Jun asked, "What about Xuzhou and Haizhou?" ”

"Naturally, give up!" Su Shi said, "It's good to be able to hold the Huai River, if you want to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, I'm afraid it's delusional."

I have already thought about moving the maritime merchants of the East China Sea to Shanghai as much as possible...... The South Sea, the North Ocean, and the Yangtze River meet in Shanghai! The future is amazing! Ling Zun's vision is really nothing to say!

The smelters of Xuzhou can move to Jiangning, and the vicinity of Jiangning has produced iron since ancient times, although it is not as good as Li Guojian, but it is not bad.

In the future, we will rely on Jiangning and Shanghai as the foundation, and rely on the Yangtze River sailors to defend the Yangtze River. If you use the land of Jianghuai as a fence, you can always keep the situation of Eastern Wu. ”

Xuzhou and Haizhou can't hold it! And these two states are a must-visit in the Northern Week! With the two states of Xuhai, the Northern Zhou Dynasty could have two major industrial and commercial centers, so that the industrial and commercial and military citizens in the Northern Zhou Dynasty could be balanced.

"What about the national body?" Ji Jun asked, "What's the method?" Is it the same republican as the Northern Zhou? ”

Su Shi shook his head, "I'm afraid it won't be a republic!" It's better to unite for the country. ”

"United for the nation?"

"More than a dozen states in the southeast are one country," Su Shi said, "and jointly promote the king of the East China Sea as the king of the people, and rule by vertical arch." All major matters in the country are discussed by the councils of the United States. ”