Li Zhi sent a lieutenant to summon Li Xiao to the palace to talk.

Under the palace corridor, the monarchs and ministers are very casual and natural, there is no imperial history here, and there are not so many rules. The Yang family, who has been making Li Xiao guess for a long time, also has a child, and now Li Xiao finally knows that this is indeed the empress Wu Zetian in history.

But at this time, she was only Wu Zhaoyi, not even a queen, let alone the Emperor Zetian.

On the several cases in front of Li Xiao, there were a few things to eat.

Corn nests, corn tortillas, corn pots, corn porridge, corn popcorn······ These are all made from corn that has just been harvested this summer, and the methods are all from Li Xiao.

The royal family shamelessly asked for Li Xiao's exclusive secret recipe, and didn't even give any benefits.

"Corn is precious, and there is only a little bit left in the palace to eat." Li Zhi saw that Li Xiao was staring at a few kinds of corn food, and explained.

"After this summer's harvest, there are already enough seeds." Li Xiao didn't care if you ate it or not, what he was thinking in his heart was why Li Zhi summoned him.

Although he is said to be a five-grade Chaosan doctor, his actual position is the six-grade corn supervisor, which is just a petty official in the Chang'an Baisi Yamen, and he is not enough to meet the right person in person.

"I have summoned you today because I want to ask you something. I heard that you exchanged 10,000 stone of grain in the Taicang of Sinong Temple with a few pieces of paper last time? ”

Li Xiao thought to himself why this dog emperor asked about this at this time, it has been a long time since this matter. His mind turned, and he felt that he had not violated the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, so he immediately said, "Your Majesty, it is not paper, it is a bond, and I did not use the bond to exchange grain from Sinong Temple Taicang, I used the bond to raise money, and then I used the money to buy grain in Taicang, 1,500 yuan, 5,000 stone millet and 5,000 stone rice bran bought at the market price." Then he reminded the emperor, didn't my bond be sold to you, the king?

Li Zhi smiled and took out a bond with a face value of 100 yuan.

"After going around in a circle, aren't they all the same?"

"Your Majesty, this is naturally different, how can it be the same."

Li Zhi waved his hand, "Okay, I won't dwell on this with you, I want to talk to you about this bond." How did you come up with this bond to cheat money in the first place? ”

Li Xiao is not happy, what do you mean by me using bonds to cheat money, how can this be a fraud, that is what I got in exchange for my ability.

He laboriously explained to the emperor what a bond was.

Li Zhi played with the bond, "I'm curious, how did you get this bond, each one is exactly the same, not like handwritten." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this is printed, first engraved and then printed. The bond is two-sided, hence the use of two engravings. In addition, there are numerical numbers on it, each of which is a unique number, and this string of codes is printed with movable copper type. ”

"I see, no wonder I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I don't understand how you made it so beautiful. Unexpectedly, it turns out that there are so many famous halls among them. The cost of this engraving and movable type printing bond is very high, right? ”

Li Xiaoxin said that there is a fart of what is the cost, Lao Tzu 1,500 bonds, but 15,000 prints, the more printed, the lower the cost, a total of carved plates, and a set of letters and numbers copper movable type. How much can it cost, the highest cost is only paper and ink, but because each of my bonds is very small, there is not much to spread out.

Of course, he told the emperor that it did cost a lot of money, and what engraving was very expensive and difficult, especially if it had to be carved on it. What those coded symbols, it's very troublesome. Especially ink, it is extremely difficult to modulate and so on.

Li Zhi was impatient to listen.

"I don't want to ask you this, I want to ask you, if the imperial court also wants to issue bonds, do you think it is feasible?"

, it turned out to be this, Li Xiao thought to himself.

Of course, it is feasible for the imperial court to issue bonds, but I am afraid that the imperial court will not be creditworthy. I issue bonds, if you don't buy it, I can find someone to buy it, after all, there are not many issues, and my Lao Li is also creditworthy, after all, he is a noble lord of the Tang Dynasty.

"Why does Your Majesty want to issue bonds, and how much do you want to issue?"

Li Zhi played with Li Ji's bonds in his hand, and said, "Although the Eastern Crusade is going well, it is estimated that it will be a protracted war, and now the prime ministers propose to let Cheng Yanjin farm in Liaodong and farm while fighting." It was also proposed that Xue Rengui and Su Lie should also be in Baekje Tuntian, and this battle did not know when it would be over. ”

He originally hoped that after Xue Rengui and his sailors entered Baekje, they would be able to attack the city and destroy Baekje quickly. But now the situation shows that Baekje is not all soft persimmons either.

On the Liaodong battlefield on the northern front, the Goguryeo army gathered and relied on the defense line of Qianli Mountain City to defend the line of the Liaohe River. Although Cheng Yanjin commanded the army, the imperial court had an order and did not want to have a hard fight with the Goguryeo people in Liaodong. This army is just to contain the main force of Goguryeo, although there is no need to fight, but the army is stationed in Liaodong, and the daily cost is also huge, even if there is no war, but it cannot be withdrawn, otherwise the Goguryeo people will inevitably transfer the army south to Baekje and flank the second general Xue Su.

Fighting a war is the most expensive, especially this kind of big war that mobilizes hundreds of thousands of troops, or a war that goes abroad.

The money and grain are consumed like flowing water ahead, but this year's summer harvest, Guanlong, Shannan and other places have failed due to drought, and many places have even directly failed to harvest.

Many states and counties have requested the deployment of food for disaster relief.

The money in the left collection of Taifu Temple, as well as the food in Taicang of Sinong Temple, is getting less and less.

"I plan to issue 1 million bonds, raise money and silk, and then buy grain for the war in Liaodong and for disaster relief."

One million guan, the emperor's appetite is quite big.

Now the price of rice in Chang'an has reached 50 Wen for rice, and the price is quite amazing, which is a new high in the price of rice in Chang'an since Zhenguan four years.

Traditionally, money can only buy two stone rice now, one million guan, and you can buy two million stone rice. However, the money raised had to be used to give rewards to the army, weapons, clothing, etc., and it was impossible to use all of it to buy rice.

If you buy rice, you also have to pay for transportation.

But there is a more practical question, one million guan is not a small amount, who to raise it from?

Li Zhi had already thought about this problem, he thought about it relatively simply, apportionment. The aristocratic officials subscribed according to their ranks, and the merchants had to buy according to their financial resources, and even the states and counties had to be apportioned according to the wealth of the population.

"There are more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty, and it is not a problem to share one million yuan."

Li Xiao pouted, the emperor really has this set of thinking, this is simply a robber thinking, not a market economy thinking at all.