"General Office Zhang, this is the order of the Empress Niang, asking the Royal Group and the Xu Family to form a joint cargo fleet to stand by at the port of the Persian Governor's Palace, and assist the Zhang and Ma fleets to be responsible for transporting the materials and personnel needed for the excavation of the Phoenician Canal from now on." After Zhang Qiang came out of the palace, he and Xu Xingxia received an order from Qiaoxi.

"Hehe, I never wanted to meddle in Western shipping, but I didn't expect the queen to directly transfer the fleet in your and my hands away, I think the task over there is very tight. Otherwise, relying on the fleets of the Zhang family and the Ma family is enough to undertake the transportation task, and there is no need for you and me to mobilize the fleet to assist. Xu Xingxia smiled bitterly beside him: "Let's hurry up, I remember that my Xu family's Western headquarters is still located in Xihai County, and I have to hurry up and inform them to mobilize ships and then go to the Persian Governor's Mansion." ”

"Who told you to keep a low profile, so that the emperor didn't have the intention of cracking down on you wealthy businessmen, as long as you abide by the law, the emperor hopes that you will do as big as possible." Zhang Qiang was also helpless about the temperament of the head of the Xu Group, so he pulled him away quickly, and immediately dispatched a fleet to rush to the Persian Governor's Mansion after the two returned. Thanks to the fact that the Marine Corps and the Western Fleet have been continuously developing supply stations on the Western route in recent years, and continue to attack the indigenous forces on the Tianzhu Peninsula, the supply network of the entire Western route has been gradually formed. These operators of the long-distance trade will also follow the footsteps of the Tang Empire and the navy further.

When Zhang Qiang and Xu Xingxia began to mobilize the fleet to go to the Persian Governor's Mansion according to Qiaoxi's order, the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Communications had jointly set up the Phoenician Canal Excavation Headquarters, with Lin Yuantu, Vice Minister of Communications, taking full responsibility, and the specific construction units were jointly undertaken by the Canal Dredging Company of the Xu Ning family and the Chang'an Construction Company of the Xu Ning family, the political envoy of Bianzhou Province. The Canal Dredging Company is responsible for the construction of the canal, and the Chang'an Construction Company is responsible for the construction of land attachments, both of which started at the same time. Lin Yuantu and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formed a joint team to set off for the Egyptian province of the Great Food Empire, Lin Yuantu was mainly responsible for command and coordination, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was responsible for liaison with the Great Food Empire. Almost at the same time, a large number of construction materials and thousands of engineers and technicians from the mainland of Datang also set off for the northwest. This move even caused the Northwest Railway Line to go to the northwest for several days in a row with trains transporting these materials, and the first stations in Fengzhou and Luoyang, the Central Plains, and even temporarily abandoned other materials that needed to be transported to the northwest. The Northwest Provinces, under the command of the Northwest Governor, began to pack and transport countless supplies that had been hoarded long ago to stations along the railways, waiting for trains to come and load them to the port terminals of the Persian Governorate. Because the skilled workers of the Tang Empire, the building materials inside the Great Food Empire, were simply dismissive, all other materials and building materials needed to be transported from the empire itself, except for a few local raw materials such as stones. This time, the cabinet showed unprecedented courage to build a canal in a foreign country, and even paid for it, which made everyone on the trip feel a heavy responsibility. This was even noticed by the command of the Western Expeditionary Army. It is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to spend so much effort and so much money to dig the canal, but in the end it will be left to the Great Food Empire. So almost at the same time that the Canal Treaty was transmitted back to the Empire, everyone in the command of the Western Expeditionary Army began to set their sights on the magical land where deserts, rivers, and oceans coexisted. Not only did Qin Kong begin to mobilize the Northwest Secret Guard Force to strengthen the spy of the Great Food Empire and the Egyptian Province, but the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army also began to conduct various war games, and began to dispatch troops to seriously study the relevant plans for defending the canal and supporting the canal guards.

The Western Expeditionary Army Command led by Wan Yi and Gauss Ji both understood that once this canal was built, not only would the power of the Great Food Empire be greatly enhanced, but also the foreign strategy would undergo a great change. And Datang is the same. Once the Phoenician Canal was completed, it meant that for the first time, the Tang Dynasty's strategy to the west had a second force in addition to the Western Expeditionary Army to carry it out. The navy in the far west will undertake the implementation of the entire strategy of the Tang Dynasty in the west together with the Western Expeditionary Army. Therefore, the Western Expeditionary Army was adjusting its deployment and conducting war games, and the General Staff in Chang'an also quietly issued a huge shipbuilding order to Dalian Shipyard for a total of five Shandong-class warships, fifteen Izumo-class warships, and twenty Fuxing-class warships. For this reason, Guo Chongtao even coordinated with the Equipment Department to fund the construction of a large-scale iron and steel plant with an annual output of 200,000 tons of iron and steel in Fengtian Province, Bohai Bay, and directly moved out the three excavated iron and coal mines in Fengtian Province for large-scale mining. The Xu family and the Ma family, who had already undertaken the task of mining and transporting mineral resources in Nanyang, were directly ordered by the Ministry of Industry to ensure that the mining and transportation volume in the 12th year of the Apocalypse would more than double that of the previous year. This time, the Cabinet was determined to take advantage of the large-scale overseas canal digging to further rectify the domestic industry, and at the same time to raise the scale of the entire industry to a new level. At the same time, because the Phoenician Canal will be directly operated by the Ministry of Communications, this is equivalent to taking out all the proceeds of the Phoenician Canal in the future to promote the development of imperial industry, which is equivalent to another type of national industrial support plan, which increases the power of industrial development in a short period of time through artificial large-scale water release. This kind of financial means, which now seem miraculous, is the first time that Zhang Jianzhong and Yin Honglin have relied on people to formulate and implement. This is the phenomenon that really surprised Li Xuanqing, although these methods still have many defects and drawbacks under the constraints of the gold standard, but seeing that the financial talents he has cultivated are truly independent and formulate financial policies that are in line with the current situation of the empire's economic development, this is the talent that the empire needs most. They have learned to think for themselves and run the financial system of the empire without their own support.

Therefore, when Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi took over this plan, they immediately approved and agreed to implement it, and thus the cabinet promulgated a complete economic support and development plan at the end of the 11th year of the Apocalypse. Led by the Empire, the Phoenician Canal was used as a starting point to adjust the industrial, commercial and financial industries that assisted the entire Empire. After the successful raising of 100 million canal bonds issued by the central bank, a huge procurement list totaling 70 million Tang yuan was directly issued, involving almost the entire imperial industrial category centered on the production of building materials and basic raw materials, and a huge procurement list was used to attract various domestic industrial industries to complete the expansion of production capacity and technological upgrading. To this end, the central bank issued an order to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which has completed the national deployment, and the Datang Ocean Bank, which was established less than half a year ago by the Murong family and the Xu family and the Asset Management Corporation of the Ministry of Finance, to increase the amount of loans issued on the basis of the original loan volume to achieve the industrial support plan, and for the first time, Yin Honglin signed an order to reduce the upper limit of deposit reserves and release more liquid cash to the two banks, so as to alleviate the shortage of liquidity caused by the issuance of large quantities of orders.

Such a large-scale industrial expansion support program and the central bank's order to increase the amount of loans issued by the central bank immediately set off a new upsurge in the industrial development of the Tang mainland, and this phenomenon echoes the political activities of the two parties in the competition for senatorial seats in various places. These constitute the norm for the last few days of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse plus the entire year of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse.

However, these don't need Li Xuanqing to think about anymore, and even Li Xuanqing, the Imperial Conference in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, doesn't plan to take the initiative to speak, whether it is the cabinet, the Tiance Mansion, the Law Court, or even the Senate, which is actively changing, has gradually matured, and there are not many places to mention. Therefore, after the New Year's Festival, Li Xuanqing still thought more about how to fill the loopholes in the industrial support plan formulated by Zhang Jianzhong and Yin Honglin and others. Under the gold standard, the amount of banknotes issued had to be linked to the amount of gold and silver reserves of the Empire. The central bank's issuance of Tang currency must strictly abide by this basic principle, otherwise once the over-issuance of currency leads to the depreciation of Tang currency, it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire financial system. However, on the surface, this industrial support plan only involves tens of millions of Tang dollars in the purchase of materials and building materials for the canal, and even the cost of the entire canal will not exceed 300 million Tang dollars according to the final calculation of the Ministry of Communications. But behind the canal procurement was the huge amount of money that the cabinet and the central bank had taken advantage of to support industrial development. The additional investments under the direct control of the Empire, such as the Cabinet, the Ministry of Finance, and the Logistics and Equipment Division, were far more than that, not counting the new loans issued by the Central Bank. The influx of these funds into the market in a short period of time made the development of industry and commerce even more vigorous, but also seriously challenged the basic principles of the empire's financial system. According to the statistics of the central bank, the new gold and silver reserves are only enough to issue about 300 million to 500 million Tang coins each year, which is simply not comparable to such a huge expenditure. You must know that except for the canal bonds, which are collected from the market and reissued, other expenditures can only be completed by the empire to issue all additional currency, and the Phoenician Canal will only be able to recover costs in a few years. Therefore, the lack of gold and silver reserves must find another way, which is the biggest headache for Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi.

"Big brother, did you ask people to find Brother Hu, do you plan to use other means to increase gold and silver reserves?" Qiaoxi sat next to Li Xuanqing, and when he saw him sending someone to inform Hu Xiaosi, he immediately frowned and said: "But also, our current financial system is still too weak, and if systemic risks occur, I am afraid that even if you and I personally take action, we may not be able to suppress it." Therefore, the gold standard is a basic financial principle that must be strictly adhered to. It's just that even if Brother Hu sent someone to Tianzhu to rob, he wouldn't be able to snatch back so much gold and silver, right? What's more, once the scale of the economy expands, then the liquidity needed to maintain economic development will also expand, which means that the new increase in gold and silver reserves we need to prepare must be twice the amount of funds needed for this economic support plan to make up for the need, otherwise, once the economic scale expands, the supply of Tang coins will not be able to keep up, which will also cause large-scale deflation, and the economic fundamentals that should have reached another climax will inevitably be hit hard, which is the problem we need to have a headache. ”

"In addition to intensifying the mining of gold and silver mines in the territory, the only way to find a way is to go to Tianzhu, maybe to go to the islands in the South Seas to find a way." Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "It's really not possible, and the only way to do it is to use your method, send people to directly open up the southern route, and then cross the Pacific Ocean to Central America to rob the Indians and Incas, and bring back all the gold and silver they have collected for hundreds of years, otherwise it is really enough." ”

"Why don't you send someone across the South Sea Islands to find the legendary island?" Qiaoxi also knew that it was too difficult to directly open up the southern route at this time, so after thinking about it, he suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "It's really appropriate to let Brother Hu's Xuan Yingwei be in charge of this matter, and Big Brother should go to that place." You see, it is too opportune for Brother Hu to come and let them and the navy secretly cross the Nanyang Islands to the south. ”

"Third sister-in-law, what are you talking about smiling so happily? Flowers bloomed on their faces. I'm afraid that the only one who dares to talk to Li Xuanqing and his wife like this is Hu Xiaosi, he sat next to him and smiled: "There won't be anything good, right?" ”

"Naturally, there are good things, but there can also be difficult things." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "I plan to formally transfer some of my men to form a gold armed force, which will specialize in the collection, mining and transportation of gold abroad, and you Xuanying Wei will be in charge of it. How do you feel that all the people you need are mobilized by you? ”

"Haha, I knew that the emperor and his third sister-in-law would have something good to do with me. It's my favorite thing to do in my life. Collecting gold? What the emperor said is too elegant, just grab it directly. I promise that I will do it in a fool's right. Hu Xiaosi immediately became excited when he heard this. This guy's favorite thing in his life is espionage and treasure collection, so as soon as he heard it, he stood up and said: "I will immediately go to draw up a specific charter, and the formation will be completed within ten days, and the order will be passed on to all branches of Xuanyingwei within half a month." As he spoke, he was about to prepare, but Qiaoxi hurriedly shouted.

"The Golden Force belongs to the direct establishment of Xuan Yingwei, and the first thing to do after the formation is completed is to cross the Nanyang Islands to find a continent, and that place will definitely be the largest island of the Tang Empire overseas in the future." Li Xuanqing suddenly smiled and said: "There may be people living in that land, but they are still in the ancient stage of slash-and-burn farming, but they should have collected a lot of gold, and your task is to snatch it back, and if necessary, capture these natives to continue mining gold." Li Xuanqing's words made Hu Xiaosi's face gradually solemn, and he finally knew why this matter should be carried out by himself and Xuan Yingwei, who were in charge of the secret of the espionage. So he nodded and said: "The emperor can rest assured, Xiao Si knows the importance and will definitely handle this matter, it just so happens that Zhao Si is on vacation with Biao Zi during this time, so let him personally lead the team to go, and I will go to Guo Chongtao's kid to borrow a warship." ”

"I don't care what you do. Anyway, I will be shipped back more than a billion Tang dollars of gold and silver within three years. Before Li Xuanqing's words were finished, Hu Xiaosi smiled directly: "Three years, two to three billion, handed over to me, it's just to grab money, I'm the best at this." ”(https:)

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