Chapter Seventy-Seven: Cattle and Horses
Credit rating can involve money and price, and Zhang Cang is also the first time to understand it. He had just asked the king to increase the exchange rate of money from 18,000 yuan to 30,000 taels of gold to 30,000 taels, but this increase was immediately resolved by the sharp drop in the price of money caused by his credit rating. Even if he increased the Qin half tael exchanged for one gold tenfold, and the Qin half tael in the Kanto money market depreciated tenfold, the result was in vain.
Under the official economy of the Qin State, holding a lot of money could not freely buy property, and the actual value of half a tael was often compared with the Kanto money market. The price of the Kanto money market rose, and the value of Qin and a half of the two fell in price, and the price of the Kanto money market fell, and the value of Qin and a half of the two depreciated. In this way, two prices are formed, one is the official market price, and the other is the actual market price, that is, the black market price.
Black market prices have no effect on ordinary people, and they will never even hear about black market prices for the rest of their lives, but for those who hold heavy money, black market prices are always touching. These people never look at the official market price, only the black market price. Zhang Cang raised the official market price to lure him, and the Kanto region rejected it by lowering the black market price, and in the end, those who had gold were still willing to transport gold and silver into the Kanto region, rather than exchange it for a large number of 'depreciated' Qin half taels.
When the candles in the Ming Hall were bright, Zhao Zhengcai understood what credit rating was and what the money market was, he was different from Zhang Cang, who was completely desperate, but said disdainfully: "These five beetle techniques, when the widow dominates the world, the guild money market, the gold bank, all be eliminated." The widow only asks you, can 100,000 gold be raised? ”
Zhao Zheng flicked his sleeves, and his question made Wang Xuan, Wei Yi and others, who had been standing for a long time, look at Zhang Cang together. Zhang Cang really wanted to say that he could, and the result of that he could be an official was that he could continue to be an official, and he might be able to become the government commander of the government in the future, but knowing that he would not restore the confidence of the market no matter what he did, he still shook his head and said, "Your lord, the minister can't." ”
"Why not?" Zhao Zheng looked directly at him, faintly angry.
"The general trend of the money market is in the Kanto region, and the ministers live in Xianyang, so there is no way to reverse this trend." Zhang Cang hurriedly paused. "It's Jing Guo, before the Ziqian family accepted the national debt, its reputation was not the top three but the top two. Everything has a price, the price of ten thousand shows people's hearts, and ministers have no power to change people's hearts. At this point, Zhang Cang knew that Taicang Lingcheng couldn't do it, so he took off the Xuanduan on his head and said: "The minister is incompetent, please punish the king!" ”
"You ......" Zhao Zheng was angry, but when Zhang Cang's words came to this, he had no way to stay if he wanted to keep this person, so he shouted violently: "Get out!" Get out of bed!! ”
"The king is angry." Zhang Cang's six gods have no master, and Prime Minister Wang Juan kept making his eyes look at him just now to ask him not to say anything, but he didn't react at all. He and the king both hoped that Zhang Cang could cut off the old evils, but he didn't expect him to resign in person, and the king wanted to keep him.
"The king is angry." Wei Yi also said.
Zhang Cang has already gotten out, and the anger in Zhao Zheng's heart is not only not extinguished, but is getting bigger and bigger. "Why is the widow not angry? The widow is not angry, is there a huge amount of money to buy horses? If the widow is not angry, where do the cattle and horses come from? Where do the cows and horses come from?! ”
Zhao Zheng was really angry. He was the king of a kingdom, but he had a very difficult time since he ascended the throne. When he swept away the domestic forces, the throne was a little more stable, and the society was unstable again. Qin destroyed Zhao, but not Qi. On the map, the territory of the Qin State has expanded, but the number of people who rule and the amount of corn produced have decreased. The state of Chu will take the entire Hanzhong this year, and if the state of Qin cannot take the state of Qi within this year, the country will be in danger.
War requires a large number of soldiers, countless materials, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses, and the generals on the front line all ask the rear, that is, ask him to ask for it, as if he is a Jingren wizard who can conjure countless cattle and horses.
"King, if the cattle and horses can't be bought in Rong Hu's hands, the counties will also have them......" Wei Yu said as he thought. The evaluation is no longer valid, but the numbers on the calculation are still real, at least, and most of the numbers are true. Judging from these figures, it is very difficult to raise 100,000 horses and 150,000 cattle in the country, and it is very easy for cattle.
"How can it be!" Wei Yu was still talking, and Wang Juan had already changed his color. "King, the war is unremitting, and there are no surplus cattle and horses in the county, if it is raised at home, the national strength will be greatly damaged."
"But 70,000 horses and 100,000 cattle." Wang Juan reacted so much that Wei Yi couldn't help but be a little funny.
"Seventy thousand horses are used in the army, and cattle are used without horses, can the national lieutenant know how many oxen are needed?" Wang Juan said unhappily. "Add 100,000, this is more than 300,000 ......"
"There are no 300,000 oxen?" Wei Yu still laughed, he felt that Wang Juan was confused. "Great King, Great Qin is full of cattle farming, and there are millions of cattle cultivated, but the ministers are in chaos and are unwilling to give cattle to the ministers."
The cattle in many counties of Qin were not raised by farmers, but by the government. The reason for this is that cattle farming was widespread in the Qin State, but not in the Kanto region. Farmers who feed cattle are likely to feed them thin, and those who are not accustomed to cattle farming may have to kill cattle for meat, so they can only raise cattle in the government. The government raises cattle, so there is no need for every household to have cattle, and there are more than 3 million households in the Qin State, and one cow for two households is 1.5 million heads. After transferring 300,000 head of cultivated cattle, Wang Juan screamed, and Wei Yu thought it was funny.
"How can I have a million cattle in Daqin!" Wei Yi didn't stop laughing, and Wang Juan had already screamed wrongly. "King, last year and this year, the land of six counties was lost, and ninety-one counties were lost, and one of the cultivated cattle in their counties was transported back to Guanzhong?"
He said again: "General Zhao Yong opened Henan, set up 34 counties, Yunzhong and Jiuyuan set up 22 counties, and a total of 100,000 cattle were transferred; Zhao Di was hungry for a long time, the cattle and horses were exhausted, and Yi Zi died, and 150,000 cattle have been transferred. Where did the county find 300,000 ploughing cattle and hand them over to the national lieutenant? ”
Wang Xuan's question made Wei Yi speechless, and Zhao Zheng's relaxed face became grim again. The Qin State lost six counties and ninety-one counties, and the accumulation of millet in the county warehouse, the money in the official government, and the cattle and sheep ...... under the jurisdiction of the Sifu were all gone.
Among the ninety-one counties, except for the four counties of Wuqian County, most of the remaining counties are large counties with more than 10,000 households, and it can basically be said that the Qin State has lost more than one-third of Dingkou, and it has lost more than one-third of its cultivated cattle. A third is lost, and the newly occupied areas are allocated to meet the needs of cattle ploughing, and the remaining amount is even smaller.
"How much do cows and horses have?" Zhao Zheng hurriedly asked.
"Not much." Wang Juan shook his head and said. "The minister only knew that he was less than a million years old, only more than 950,000. Horses are not cattle, farmers do not use horses, only officials and nobles use horses, and horses may be stored more than 50,000 horses. In addition, the horses of Longxi and Beidi are less than 120,000. ”
"There are so few horses?!" If it weren't for the prime minister's mouth, Zhao Zheng didn't believe these figures. In particular, he still had more than 400,000 horses in the country ten years ago, and he also purchased tens of thousands of horses every year.
"There are still more than 230,000 cattle and 160,000 horses in the army." Wei Yu named the numbers in the army. "The minister thought that he could levy the horses of the nobles of the government, so he could get 30,000 horses, and the remaining 40,000 would be replaced by cattle."
"The horses of the government are all inferior horses." Wang Qian argued. "The horses are very fast, and the oxen are very slow, and forty thousand horses are replaced by oxen, which is not less than a hundred thousand; The nobles of the government lacked horses, and they also replaced them with cattle, which was nearly 100,000; Niu 150,000 originally wanted to buy 100,000, and this is another 100,000, so he needs 300,000 cattle. 300,000 cattle are used for military affairs, but what can be done with farming? ”
At this point, Wang Juan has already spread his hands. He said again: "Cattle are not horses, horses can produce once a year, a cow is only four or five times from birth to stillbirth, if there is no ploughing cattle, the production of millet is greatly reduced, how can Daqin fight?" ”
The war has developed to this point, and resources have become increasingly strained. Seleucus cut off all trade with Chu, and Chu, which lacked gold and silver, compromised with the Ziqian family. The situation was even worse than that of Chu, where the newly acquired land of Qin was full of depleted resources, and instead of increasing Qin's resources, it diluted Qin's resources.
Thinking of this, Zhao Zheng couldn't help but think of the previous Wei Yi's opposition to the expansion in Henan. There is nothing in Henan, and investing resources to reclaim Henan will not have any return in a short time, but will drive away those Ronghu who raise horses. Ronghu may not need salt silk, but at least iron and cloth.
After Zhao Zheng promised to carefully consider the requisition of cattle and horses, Wang Juan retired. Only Wei Yu was left on the Ming Hall. There was nothing superfluous, Zhao Zheng only asked: "Is it necessary to destroy Qi with 100,000 horses and 150,000 cattle?" ”
"In winter, the water is frozen, and the transportation can only be carried by cattle and horses." Wei Yu knew what Zhao Zheng meant when he asked him.
"Can only be extinguished in the cold winter? King Jing no longer wants to save Qi. "Everyone knows that the world knows that all countries are no longer saving, and Zhao Zheng naturally knows it.
"King, soldiers are not tired of cheating, if this is the time of Jing people, what can I do?" Wei Yi asked rhetorically. "The previous time Wang Jian ensured that the army was not lost, this can be one, not two. If Wang Jian's army is lost, the society will ...... Jeopardy! ”
Zhao Zheng was furious at the time when Wang Jian invaded Linzi but retreated in disarray, but in hindsight, the Qin army did not have a numerical advantage, and the enemy was led by King Jing. The opinion of the State Captain's Mansion is that King Jing alone can be a hundred thousand soldiers, so it is the number of coalition forces that is superior. If Wang Jian's army is really exhausted, Qin Guosheji may really be lost.
"The war boats of Jingguo can be in Xizhou, and the big river is vast, if there is no boat-building technique in Xizhou, our army can only transport grain and straw by land. In addition to transportation, I can't go to the big river, our army is attacking, the Jing people are attacking our grain road, and the army is in danger. And the Jingren Sea Boat can be in the ......"
The country of Qi is close to the sea and is downstream of the Yellow River, so it is impossible to control the river. The Qin army could only carry out a winter offensive, and the winter offensive was not to expand the territory and pull out the city, but to consume the Qi soldiers. Once the Qi people can consume the soldiers, the Qi country will not die.
Wang Jian seeks stability, and this is the case on the side of seeking stability. After recalling Wang Qian's strategy to destroy Qi, Wei Yu said again: "Please think about other strategies after the king's ministers return to the house, if they can eliminate the harm of Jing people and boats, they may not be able to destroy Qi." ”
"Good." Zhao Zheng said busily. "If there is a strategist who can use his plan to destroy Qi, the widow will be rewarded."
"Respectfully." Seeing that the monarchs and ministers glanced at each other inadvertently, and saw the expectation in Zhao Zheng's eyes, Wei Yi's heart tightened and tightened.
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