The trip to Lishan taught a lesson to all the civil affairs officials, the train is a novelty that shocks everyone is not ordinary, Li Xuanqing's industrial development and emphasis on science and technology have been reflected at this moment, along the way everyone has a deep thought about the steel monster under their feet and Li Xuanqing's words, and also thinks about how to go in the future.

However, after Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi came back, they were worried about the problem of ironmaking, and it was still so difficult for Yuwenli's steelmaking problem to advance, so how should the ironmaking technology as a source of steelmaking be improved? The crucible steelmaking method is already the best ironmaking method that Li Xuanqing can think of, and it is also the most in line with this era.

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with any way Li Xuanqing simply didn't care about this, according to the current output is enough, according to the current scientific and technological power that Tiance Mansion can control, there are already many people who pay attention to the steel field, and some small improvements have never been broken, although these do not have the kind of qualitative change that Li Xuanqing wants, but the process of quantitative change has never been broken.

"Big brother, Brother Yuwen, their railroad tracks are a little slow, and they want to build a new factory." Just when Li Xuanqing was about to digest these feelings on Lishan Mountain in the past few days, Qiaoxi came over with a small Sichuan-made mat and spread it next to Li Xuanqing, and the two of them set up a bunk in the Qianqiu Palace, talking while enjoying the coolness.

"Okay, put some pressure on him, and promote the new technology by the way. In fact, there are some technologies that they don't know, but they haven't thought about it. Li Xuanqing knew what technique Qiaoxi wanted to use, but he didn't plan to stop it, so he smiled and said: "Qiaoxi, from tomorrow the eldest brother is going to fight, so you can instruct Yin Hongfeng about these things and let him do it." The construction of the railway is related to the major event of our future recovery of Anxi and the Western Regions. ”

"Don't worry, big brother, you can go to war with peace of mind, these tricks will do." Qiaoxi pillowed Li Xuanqing's arm and smiled: "But big brother, didn't you say that you plan to bury your head in development this year, why are you going to fight again?" ”

"It's a special kind of war." Li Xuanqing patted Qiaoxi's little head and said with a smile: "I've been crazy on Lishan these days, come back and take a good rest, don't get tired." ”

"I'm not tired, I want to be with my big brother." Qiaoxi buried her head in Li Xuanqing's arms and said softly.

"Really?" Li Xuanqing suddenly smiled evilly, and his big hand covered his delicate and beautiful body.

A murmuring of swallows, like a spring breeze, in an instant, the moon was covered with a veil of smoke and hid in the clouds.

Early the next morning, Li Xuanqing began to convene the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Finance, the Qianzhuang Management Department, and Xuan Yingwei to begin to set up an economic war office, and used the vacated Changqing Palace as the office location.

"Lord, everything is ready now, just waiting for the lord's order." Hu Xiaosi, who came early, smiled when he saw Li Xuanqing coming.

Li Xuanqing didn't pay attention to his well-groomed appearance when he saw him, took the report handed over by Murong Hanhai and looked at it a few times, and then laughed and said, "It seems that you have prepared well." Everyone does, we have only one external task in July, that is, to grab other people's money and grain to subsidize the deficit of the Finance Department and start a large-scale project. I won't have time to do that next year. ”

Li Xuanqing's words also made everyone realize that next year, the eyes of the Tiance Mansion will shift from internal to external, so Murong Hanhai and Qi Hong glanced at each other, and the former said: "My lord, there are currently nineteen merchants participating in the plan, plus the business houses secretly established by Xuan Yingwei, the scope has spread all over the Central Plains, Youhe, Shannan and Sichuan, and all the secret arrangements have been in place by the end of last month. ”

After Li Xuanqing roughly calculated, he nodded and said, "The scale and scope are enough." How is it doing? ”

Qi Hong said with a smile: "The lord can rest assured, the first half of the year is basically hoarding materials, dredging transportation routes, and opening up relationships at all levels, so there is no transportation of bulk materials and goods back to the mainland, starting from the beginning of July, Bianliang, Shandong and other places in the Central Plains began to transport materials, and the Youhe region also began to hoard and purchase, and the throughput in other regions is too large, and the impact is not great, but the Central Plains has begun to have an impact. In Bianliang and Dongdu, prices have risen by about 10% in July. ”

"How many copper coins are you sending out now?" Li Xuanqing knew the law of rising prices, but with Zhu Quanzhong's ability, he should have noticed the rise of one percent, why is he still encircling and suppressing Qin Zongquan with peace of mind. But in other words, Qin Zongquan seems to be able to resist more than in history, more than half a year has passed, and now Caizhou City is still in his hands.

"The Department of Finance prepared 15 million copper coins in advance, of which 5 million were invested in the Central Plains and distributed to 10 merchant branches, and 8 million were prepared in the later stage, which has also been delivered in place." Qi Hong and Yin Honglin summed it up and said, "At present, there are still three million copper coins in the money village to spare. ”

"In that case, let's get started, Xuan Yingwei will shift his energy to this special war." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "It is a bit unexpected for the Northwest Region to be able to have so many copper coins. ”

"In fact, these numbers are not correct, this is just our official copper coins, and several of our industries that originally had a large number of copper coins in various places will also be invested in the follow-up actions." Murong said with a smile.

"Okay, you go separately to prepare, from now on, open the gate of Tongguan and loosen the circulation restrictions with all parts of Shandong." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly. This economic war has also officially begun. On this day, the manpower of several departments specially mobilized began to release the latest flying pigeon biography in large quantities, and urgently summoned all the filing merchants under the Department of Industry and Commerce and Xuan Yingwei to start closing the network.

With the arrival of these flying pigeon biography to their destinations, the markets in the Central Plains, Youhe, Shannan and Sichuan began to quietly appear strange fluctuations, and all kinds of materials that were already slightly in demand were purchased by various mysterious merchants, and then began to be secretly transferred, some disappeared, and some were stored after a few hands.

In fact, if it is other materials, it is not a big problem, but in the planning of the Department of Industry and Commerce of Tiance Mansion, there are many material purchases involving food and other daily necessities, which completely ignited the rear of all forces. You must know that Sichuan, the Central Plains, Huaisi and other places are all at war, and such a disturbance is tantamount to completely disrupting the balance of power of all parties and setting fire to the backyards of all forces.

However, no one knew how to operate this method adopted by Li Xuanqing at the beginning, because the materials at the beginning were hoarded or secretly stored, and the lack of liquid market further aggravated the panic of the people, and those people living in the cities completely lost their livelihood security after they could not buy daily necessities or the price of goods rose too much, and the people were dissatisfied for a while, and all kinds of social contradictions were really placed on the desks of all rulers.

"Haha, lord, I estimate that Zhu Quanzhong may give up encircling and suppressing Qin Zongquan and return to his lair to solve these livelihood problems. But the key is that they don't have a solution at all, haha, I really want to see Zhu Quanzhong's face, my lord, do you think Zhu Quanzhong will sell his daughter-in-law in the end? I heard that his daughter-in-law is still quite beautiful. Hu Xiaosi's nonsense made several people present laugh. Finally stopped laughing, Cen Tianshi said: "Lord, will Zhu Quanzhong jump off the wall in a hurry?" What about the people? ”

Li Xuanqing and Hu Xiaosi smiled and said, "You Xuanyingwei will implement the second-step plan as appropriate, so that these separatist forces will accelerate their collapse. ”

The second-step plan in Li Xuanqing's mouth was formulated by Xuan Yingwei alone, and those that needed the cooperation of the Department of Industry and Commerce were also negotiated separately, so far except for Hu Xiaosi and Xu Tianxiang, only Li Xuanqing knew the whole content.

Seeing Li Xuanqing nodded, Hu Xiaosi stood up and said: "Some of the hoarded materials will be sold when the price is high, and most of the money obtained will be used to corrupt the personnel within the various forces, which will be used for Xuan Yingwei's daily buying tasks, and the rest will be used to speculate on other materials and goods, so as to drive all goods in the market to follow suit, so as to achieve the best mode of economic warfare." As for the people, there are two ways, one is that Xuanyingwei has secretly planned nine roads to enter the customs, and when the time comes, Xuanyingwei will organize the people to flee to other regions, or enter Guanzhong, or flee to other areas with smaller impacts. ”

At first glance, this plan was instructed by Li Xuanqing, and Cen Tianshi thought for a while about the arrangements for the people, nodded and said, "Are some of the materials you hoarded to be sold to the people at a low price?" Otherwise, these grains have reached sky-high prices, how can the people survive? What about the supplies along the way to escape? ”

"Mr. Shum can rest assured that we have arranged for pick-up personnel along the way, and there will be no accidents. In fact, what I am most worried about now is the reaction of Zhu Quanzhong and others. Hu Xiaosi hurriedly explained to Cen Tianshi and then changed the topic.

"Give a top-secret order to all participating merchants, if their business activities are restricted by the local government or even more severely suppressed, they can give up everything if necessary, and Xuan Yingwei will assist them to withdraw and move to another place to continue." Li Xuanqing knew what Hu Xiaosi was worried about, and said: "If Zhu Quanzhong adopts violent suppression, you Xuan Yingwei will immediately implement the third-step plan, and I will make him doubt his life." ”

Li Xuanqing's words revealed an inexplicable killing intent, which made the hearts of several people around him tremble, but then they were stunned by Li Xuanqing's words, the third step plan? How many heavy chain layouts are there?

However, Li Xuanqing didn't explain anything, and Hu Xiaosi didn't know how to explain. Just took the order and hurried away.

"From now on, Mr. will arrange manpower at the checkpoints along the line, ready to receive people, and arrange follow-up matters." Li Xuanqing instructed: "The number of people transported this time will not be small, some of them can be arranged for agriculture, and the rest should be distributed to industry and commerce to ensure the number of labor force in industry and commerce." After a pause, he said: "In addition, the technicians among the fugitive people should be treated with great attention, and they should be sent to the logistics department in advance, and then diverted to other industrial entities. ”

Li Xuanqing's words made Cen Tianshi's old face red, and he hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, and then said with a wry smile: "The lord's serial plan is estimated to take a long time, right?" ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said with a smile: "Economic warfare is actually a state of operation, although it is a little unkind to one's compatriots on one's own territory, but it is also the most important kind of help outside the battlefield, which can quickly destroy the opponent's war staying power, disintegrate the opponent's foundation, and quickly complete reunification." After a pause, he continued: "Sir, please rest assured, Xuan Yingwei has prepared for the worst-case scenario, and tried his best to control the scope of the impact to the visible extent to ensure that the foundation of Huaxia will not be destroyed. ”

Cen Tianshi nodded and said with a smile: "The lord's mind is always clear, I will personally go to Tongguan to arrange manpower on the spot." ”

Li Xuanqing glanced at Cen Tianshi beside him and Murong Hanhai and the others behind him, who were busy making the merchants pay attention to the operation, and smiled slightly, he introduced the common sense of the economy into the daily work of Tiance Mansion little by little, and now it seems that the effect is not bad, at least these people around him have been able to consider the gains and losses from the economic side when making decisions.

Just when Li Xuanqing was thinking about this, countless carrier pigeons flew urgently in the Kanto region, bringing the latest news, and at the same time, the Chang'an headquarters also transmitted the latest information, and Xuan Yingwei started a new round of actions.

It was also at this time that Zhu Quanzhong's rear also received the latest instructions, and countless soldiers and officials began to act. Taiyuan, Jinzhou, Chengdu and other places also reacted almost simultaneously.

The reactions of these people could not affect the mood of the top decision-maker of the Heavenly Ce Mansion, and in his eyes, a new fire of war had ignited in those places, as if he saw where the victory was.