The wine banquet is very simple, but everyone eats very happily, of course, according to the Chinese tradition, the wine banquet is not eaten in vain, everyone can talk about some major things at the wine banquet.

Mr. Da, who had just been promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, began to complain: "Lord, this matter must be solved by a way, and if it is not solved, there will be two big problems."

Being called the lord by the eldest brother, Lu Peng listened awkwardly, but at this time, the eldest brother was already his subordinate, and he needed to take the lead in doing so, although Lu Peng listened awkwardly, but he could only accept it, who let this be an evil feudal society.

"The subordinates have traveled all over the country, and the owners of industrial and commercial workshops in various places, as well as businessmen in various places, now, these people have been complaining, for example, a very simple truth, the wine-making workshop, in the local, because the money was cheap Yam, now we need money, which invisibly increases the capital of the entire production, and what about the production of wine? Sell to other places, a pound can only be sold for 50 Wen, of course, these people can also be in the field to barter, a pound of wine, can be exchanged for 30 pounds of grain, however, if a wine workshop, every year produces 100,000 catties of wine, for 3 million catties of grain, in the local resale, need to endure all kinds of exploitation, in fact, can not make money, if transported back to Youzhou, although Youzhou is now short of grain, but the price of grain per stone, although higher than the field, but comparatively speaking, it is lower, in this way, it will lose money when it is transported backThis has dealt a serious blow to the enthusiasm of industrial and commercial workshops, and if we follow the current trend of development, a year later, all kinds of factories and workshops that we are thriving now will have to close down one after another because of this kind of foreign nobility and internal cheapness. ”

After Mr. Big finished speaking, Zhao Quan also began to complain for the troops: "Lord, our government has money, should we raise the military salaries of soldiers?" And military spending? ”

Mi Zhu immediately jumped out and objected: "In Dahan, take a look at whose army is like ours?" Every ordinary soldier has a monthly salary of five thousand dollars? In other places, they are all forcibly recruited, and your army should be content. ”

Convention, once it is cultivated, it is difficult to change, for example, now Lu Peng's army, developed a rich military salary convention, once it is cut off, the matter of salary will inevitably happen, or the kind of words that Lu Peng said at the beginning, if you are forced to levy, everyone will have no choice but to endure, but since you did not forcibly levy and paid a generous military salary, then you suddenly have no military salary, and the consequences will be bad as a matter of course.

Of course, this is just a way of saying that if you let people become soldiers, you should give people a good salary, money and food, otherwise, where is the arrogant morale of the Youzhou Army now?

So Lu Peng playfully guided Zhao Quan to speak: "Tell me why you want to increase military salaries?" ”

Zhao Quan smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, the salary of a soldier of ours was 5,000 yuan per month, which was quite generous in the past, but not recently, the original 5,000 money can fully feed a family and live a prosperous life, but recently due to rising prices, we can only barely ensure that the family has enough food and clothing, so how can we make the soldiers feel at ease?" As for the question of increasing military spending, it is precisely in this regard that the money that I used to guarantee that every soldier would be able to eat a meal of meat in five days has recently become inadequate, and the price of meat is rising, but my military expenditure allocation has not changed, and the funds originally allocated can no longer buy those meats. Then complained to Mi Zhu: "You are like today's meal, originally we ate this table of wine and food, 500 yuan is enough, but now you ask those chefs to buy, can a thousand yuan be done?" Therefore, I beg my lord, we now have a mountain of money in the treasury, and please increase the salaries and expenses of the soldiers. ”

As soon as he said this, Mi Zhu also began to complain: "Now the people of our Youzhou look rich, but in fact, this is the reason why I applied for tax reduction and exemption from the main attack, our worried people have made money, but now the money is really worthless, so the people's lives have not really improved." Then he painfully bowed his hand to Lu Peng: "Our treasury is abundant, let's find a way to make the people truly rich." ”

At this time, Lu Peng had long been most worried about things, and saw the clues that he didn't want to see.

Now Lu Peng controls only one-third of the four counties in Youzhou, but now he has a population of 3 million, which is simply unimaginable in this era - disaster.

The reason why I say this is that the current agricultural output is very low, and it is difficult for the limited land to feed more people, and the reason why Youzhou can still support it now and there is no huge turmoil is not the industry that Lu Peng has drummed up, such as the vermicelli factory, the distillery, the steelmaking and iron-making plant, the coke salt pan, and the countless manpower who did the logistics for the war, and a large number of surplus labor was digested, so that many people could earn wages to support their families.

But money cannot be eaten, and these people who are paid have to buy food, cloth, and silk, which are the most basic necessities of life. Due to the small amount of land in Youzhou, the land production can no longer meet the needs of the current population.

The whole Youzhou is now a kind of deformed economy, a large number of industrial products are being sold, but it needs to import a large amount of grain and cloth from all over the country, because the lowest consumer goods such as grain and cloth need to be imported in large quantities, after fattening many merchants, but it really lowers the lives of the people.

The trade surplus occupied by the huge export of industrial products still allows countless money to flow into Youzhou, which is a strange phenomenon, because a large amount of money flows in outside Youzhou, resulting in cheap money and materials outside Youzhou, that is, a money shortage in disguise.

In Youzhou, because of the large inflow of copper coins, there has been a depreciation of coins, cheap money and expensive materials, this abnormal phenomenon, in this way, it is extremely unfavorable to exports, and will make industry and commerce lose more money The strange phenomenon of losing money.

Later generations around 2017. As China's exports are huge, what needs to be purchased has become smaller, and in this way, a large amount of world wealth has flowed into China, resulting in a painful phenomenon of a strong external exchange rate and a serious internal depreciation. The treasury hoards a huge amount of foreign exchange but does not dare to spend it, and it becomes dead money, and this money does not dare to increase the welfare of the people, because once this huge amount of money flows into the market, it will further aggravate the currency depreciation of the mainland. This was a strange phenomenon in China at that time, on the one hand, those who had more money became dead money, and on the other hand, they did not dare to invest in the market to stimulate the economy and increase the welfare of the people.

Now, Lu Peng is at this kind of worrying tipping point.

The depreciation of coins has begun to slowly appear in Youzhou, and now things are still just in the bud, if it weren't for Lu Peng's firm hiding countless money in the treasury and not spending it externally, how much this situation would have been inhibited, but this is not a long-term solution after all, if this continues, the Youzhou government will have a mountain of money, but the poor need to beg for food.

However, if your government does not issue it, the export of those industrial products will still bring a steady stream of money from outside into Youzhou and flow to the market, and if this development continues, the depreciation of money will break out in the near future, which will be a disastrous consequence.

Putting down the wine glass, Lu Peng said the urgent thing now from the economic experience of the market: "Due to our internal deformed economic development, a form of currency depreciation has been invisibly formed, if I am in front of the people's tax burden, or increase the military salary of the soldiers, it will aggravate the speed crisis of the depreciation of this coin, which is why I would rather rot the money in our hands in our treasury than no longer issue it to the outside world." ”

Of course, when talking about the economy with these ancient people, there is a feeling of playing the harp to the cow, but this matter must be resolved, otherwise the economy in his own territory will collapse completely: "Therefore, it is imperative to find land for these three million people, to find a cathartic market for the mountain of money in the treasury, and to eliminate the economic crisis for the future of the economy." ”

Then Lü Peng solemnly sat up straight and announced to the full house: "In order to avoid such catastrophic consequences in the future, we must use the sword in our hands to open up land territory for us to come from self-sufficient food, and find a place for circulation for our surplus money." Therefore, we had to be forced to wage war externally. ”