Chapter 1157: The Rise of the Republic III

Kaifeng Mansion, Yuqing Daode Palace.

As a royal Taoist temple, Yuqing Daode Palace can be regarded as magnificent to the extreme. Even if it is not fully completed now, it is still enough to show the Fengheng Yuda of the Great Song Dynasty.

In terms of size alone, in Kaifeng Mansion, where every inch of land is valuable, the value of this palace with a radius of seven or eight miles and an area of more than 1,000 acres is no less than tens of millions. In addition, at the expense of the cost, all the places should be enshrined, and desperately transport the treasures of the southeast wealth to Kaifeng Mansion to decorate the Yuqing Daode Palace, and there is more than a small goal!

After spending so much money, investing so much thought, and not hesitating to disturb the people of the southeast to collect rare treasures, this Yuqing Daode Palace finally built several beautiful palaces.

Zhao Ji, who is becoming more and more obsessed with Taoism, will go to the Wendao Hall of the newly completed Yuqing Daode Palace as soon as he disperses in the past few days, where he will summon ministers and foreign envoys while cultivating Taoism. It's really a bit like the Sect Leader Daojun Emperor.

Of course, Zhao Ji's Tao is not meditation and cultivation, nor is it alchemy and medicine, but the study of philosophy and art. Taoist priests and Taoist aunts like Guo Jing, Liu Wuji, and Guo Xiaoxiao are just the "administrators" of the Yuqing Daode Palace. Their level is not enough, and they are not qualified to discuss with the Sect Leader Dao Monarch Emperor at all!

Speaking of which, this Daojun Emperor is also one of the founders of the Confucian positivist school! In these years, he has been busy serving the country and the people, and has not studied philosophical issues in such depth. Now he is getting more and more slack, and he is going to the road of a faint king. Then there is a kung fu research avenue!

Among the scholars who were able to discuss Taoism with him in the Yuqing Daode Palace were Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao, as well as Li Gang, the great master of the Confucian Rationalist School, who traveled all the way from Shanghai, and even Omar, a scholar from the world of Tianfangjiao. Khayyam.

Unconsciously, the Qingcheng School Palace and the Yuqing Daode Palace in Kaifeng Mansion have also evolved into the fourth academic center in the Great Song Dynasty after Tianjin Yuntai School Palace, Haizhou Yuntai School Palace, and Shanghai University of Arts and Sciences.

It's just that the Qingcheng School Palace and the Yuqing Daode Palace are not the positions of Confucianism improvement, but the strongholds of Taoist evolution.

With Zhao Ji, a generous and knowledgeable sponsor, it was only a matter of time before Dao Daozong became the leader of Taoism in the world.

Of course, the addition of Zhao Ji and Taoism is also very beneficial to the progress of philosophy and science (in fact, natural science is still in the stage of natural philosophy).

Philosophy, including natural philosophy, is most afraid of having only one thought, one voice.

However, it was not a philosopher who was discussing with Zhao Ji in the magnificent and solemn hall today, but several of Zhao Ji's important ministers.

"Your Majesty...... The method proposed by the Liao envoy Yelu Yan is indeed feasible. It's nothing more than spending a little money, which is just a drop in the bucket for today's imperial court. Plucking a hair and making Youzhou lose a mansion is really cost-effective. Moreover, attacking Lushun Jiancheng can also cause heavy losses to the Liao people, which is really killing two birds with one stone! ”

Talking to Emperor Daojun was Zuo Xiang Cai Jing. The first assistant of the Great Song Dynasty has been very proud recently, the money has been a big success, and the real estate market in Kaifeng Mansion has also been rising - this is a profit at both ends! On the one hand, paper can be exchanged for money, and on the other hand, land can be exchanged for money.

In less than a year, the imperial court was already richer than Cai Jing and Zhao Ji imagined.

Of course, Zhao Ji and Cai Jing are not the kind of officials who are not sympathetic. The two of them are still very concerned about the housing difficulties of the following group of officials.

And the way they are concerned is to take a part of the money obtained from the sale of land and subsidize the interest on the loan of officials to buy a house - this is a great virtue!

The number of Beijing officials in the Northern Song Dynasty was huge, and there were few who could afford to buy real estate in Kaifeng Mansion. Even if you rent a house to live, you have to spend a lot of money, which is a very large expenditure for middle and low-level officials who are not rich.

Now they only need to take out a small amount of money to make a down payment, and they can get an ultra-long-term mortgage and repay the loan in installments with JD Bank and Jinbao Bank (this business was first launched by Jinbao Bank, which is controlled by Wu Haogu). If the interest on the loan was subsidized by the imperial court, then the officials spent about the same amount of money each month on repaying the principal as they would have spent on renting a house. If they are released as officials, the real estate in Kaifeng Mansion can still be rented out to collect money. And the price of real estate has risen, which can also bring them a profit.

This is really a wise man in the court, a virtuous minister!

Now that Zhao Ji and Cai Jing have money in their hands, of course, they can consider burning money compared with Wuhaogu's Youzhou!

Zhao Ji nodded lightly while listening, and seemed to agree with Cai Jing's words. After Cai Jing finished speaking, he frowned slightly: "Millions of Liao soldiers, if it is pressed towards Youzhou, Wu Haogu should also be frightened, right?" ”

To be honest, Zhao Ji himself was a little frightened. In case Wu Haogu can't bear it, millions of Liao soldiers will first break Lushun, then level Youzhou, and then go south to Kaifeng Mansion......

"Your Majesty, the Hebei Xuanfu Division reported that today's major newspapers in Tianjin have published an article entitled 'Millions of Liao soldiers are pressing the border, and the republic is in danger'!" Wu Juhou said as he took out a newspaper and handed it to the little yellow door beside Zhao Ji with both hands.

Zhao Ji took the newspaper and read it carefully word by word. While watching, he frowned.

The newspapers used very fierce words, shouting the slogans "The republic is in danger, everyone is working hard" and "The republic is rather a broken jade, and the citizens do not seek perfection."

Moreover, there was another article in the newspaper mentioning that the Senate was holding an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of an additional 10 million yuan of war bonds.

It's all to the point of going to war in debt! It seems that Wu Haogu is also running out......

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing said, "Lushun's gains and losses have nothing to do with Yandi Portal. Even if he misses, Wu Haogu can continue to support it. If Wu Haogu really can't hold on, the imperial court will also take the opportunity to garrison Yanshan.

So now it's very worthwhile to allocate tens of millions of dollars to Tao Jiefu to recruit Yandi warriors. In the future, most of them can use this army to enter Yanjing. ”

Zhao Ji's brows were still furrowed. Millions of Liao soldiers don't have to go south from Yandi, and now half of Hedong is in the hands of Liao!

Go down to Henan Mansion from the southeast of the river, and then you can go east to outflank Kaifeng Mansion!

Seeing that Zhao Ji was just frowning and silent, Cai Jing said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Wu Haogu may also win!" ”

Win? Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment and looked up at Cai Jing.

Cai Jingdao: "Destroy the Khitan million-strong army in Liaodong...... This is a gamble on national fortune! If Wu Haogu wins, he will get the national fortune of Liao! ”

Get the ...... of the National Games Why does that sound so strange?

Cai Jing gritted his teeth, "Today, the two dynasties of the north and the south stand side by side!" The Great Song Dynasty is Zhengshuo, and the Great Liao is not a small court in a corner of peace! If the fortunes of Da Liao return to Wu Haogu, he can justifiably open the country! ”

"The Founding of the Nation?" Zhao Ji took a breath of cool air.

"Jiangshan," Cai Jingdao, "after all, it was defeated!" If Wu Haogu stepped on the corpses of millions of Liao soldiers to open the country, who in the north would dare not regard it as Zhengshuo? ”

He only said half of his words, and the other half was "Wu Hao Gu is the right of the Northern Dynasty, but it is far more than the way that the ancestors of the Zhao family usurped from orphans and widows."

Zhao Ji's face was also as black as iron. Wu Haogu now claims that the emperor will be regarded as a rebel by the people of the world, but once he destroys a million Liao soldiers...... That is to take away the national glory of the Khitan! If the country is founded at that time, who will say that he is rebellious? On the battlefield, how can it be a rebellion to snatch a pair of rivers and mountains from the hands of barbarians? And no one dares to say that!

That's the country that you get by killing millions of Khitan heroes...... It's scary to think about!

"Quick, send money to Tao Jiefu!" Zhao Ji's forehead was full of cold sweat, "Tell him that you must hire all the strong men of Yandi, no matter how much it costs!"

In addition, allocate another sum of money to Pan Xiao'an, so that he can repair both Luocheng and Fancheng in Xiangyang, the stronger the better! ”

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"Ten million? King, our Youzhou Republican Government doesn't have 10 million dollars a year! ”

"Yes, I borrowed a lot of money, how can I pay it back in the future?"

"We have invested too much money in Lushun Mansion...... Now, now......"

"Now what? Now is the time for the survival of the nation! This money has to be spent! ”

"That's right! As long as Yelu Yanxi is defeated, the land, minerals, trees, cattle and sheep of the northern land will be taken by us. ”

"Yes, the black soil on both sides of the Liao River alone is worth tens of millions!"

"The war debt bill should now be passed immediately......"

Tianjin, inside the building of the Senate of the Republic of Youzhou. The closed-door meeting of the Senate is at a critical juncture.

One by one, the elders stood up to express their attitude towards the urgent issuance of war bonds. There was some opposition, but more support for it.

The emergency public debt of 10 million yuan sounds terrible, but after the Lushun fortress defeated Yelu Yanxi's "million army", the benefits that Youzhou can get also make some of the elders a little eager to try.

Land, minerals, trees, cattle and sheep go without saying, but these are not the most precious, the most precious is a republic!

Up to now, Youzhou is only a town that is dependent on the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not a country that is on a par with the Great Song Dynasty.

And to build a country, you must go through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

defeated the Khitan "million army", Youzhou is the Northern Dynasty Zhengshuo!

It is even possible to dominate the world in the future and plant the banner of the republic all over the country.

Wu Haogu, who was sitting in the seat of the chief veteran, did not say a word from today's meeting until now, but his brows were tightly locked, and his mind seemed to have flown to the battlefield thousands of miles away.

Yelu Yanxi did something unexpected, not only Wu Haogu did not expect it, but even the people in the General Military Machinery Department did not expect it.

It seems that the battle of the Guardian Dagang will not be over! It's going to be changed to the Battle of Arthur.

And this war, needless to say, is the battle for the founding of the republic! This happened a little too quickly, and it was unexpected!

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