Oh, yes! If Hu Chu State is unwilling to stop, he insists on attacking on a large scale when Great Qin's strength has been exhausted.

Even if he wants to take this opportunity to destroy Daqin in one fell swoop, then Yang Dewen wants to implement this method, I'm afraid that the far water can't save the near fire.

"The imperial court should take advantage of the fact that the Huchu State had captured Changzhou, and before it reached the capital, to take immediate action and borrow large sums of money from the wealthy merchants.

First send the arrears of military salaries, collect grain from the big grain merchants, and transfer the army to the front line of the war with the Huchu State, so as to be prepared, is the top priority of the imperial court, and it must be done immediately.

At least let Hu Chu State see that my Great Qin soldiers and horses are already on the verge of the front line, and the peace talks will be much more favorable. ”

Yang Dewen felt that he had to act immediately to raise money and food.

If you wait until everyone already knows, Huchu has already captured Changzhou, and even Wuzhou has been taken.

At that time, if you want to raise money and food, I am afraid that those rich businessmen will not be so easy to fool, if the court has no money and food, the military salary owed will not be paid, and the transfer of troops will be just an empty word.

For many ordinary people, this kind of non-foreign invasion war is nothing more than a change in the role of the ruler.

Just like Changzhou and Wuzhou, more than a hundred years ago, they were still the states and counties of Huchu State, even if they are now robbed by Huchu State again. The Hu Chu State will not be able to indiscriminately kill the local ordinary people in Changzhou and Wuzhou.

On the contrary, due to Changzhou and Wuzhou, the actual distance from the capital of the Great Qin Empire is more than half the distance from the capital of the Huchu State.

Therefore, the people of Changzhou and Wuzhou may have a higher sense of identity with the Huchu State than with the Great Qin State.

Emperor Qin Kaiyuan also thought so, and immediately issued an edict to openly borrow a huge amount of money from the people in the name of the imperial court to improve people's livelihood and develop the economy.

This huge loan, the total amount is 10 million taels, and the loan period is one year.

After the loan expires, with the IOU stamped with the emperor's treasure seal, the principal and interest can be recovered from the household department of the imperial court or the state and county officials.

The imperial court paid interest for a year, which would be as high as five percent.

In addition, the IOU issued by the imperial court will not be specifically signed, and after the loan expires, the imperial court only relies on the IOU to repay the debt, and the IOU does not recognize the person.

With this regulation, that is to say, this IOU can be regarded as silver, circulated freely among the people, and can even be directly used to buy things.

In fact, at the beginning, Qin Kaiyuan, the Great Qin Emperor, and Zuo Xiang Cen Wenyi and other hundred officials in the court thought that the loan period of one year was too short, and it would be difficult for the imperial court to repay this debt.

And the interest paid for this is too high, 10,000,000 taels of silver, which means that you have to pay 500,000 taels of interest.

In the entire Great Qin Empire, in the best years, the tax silver that can be collected from the treasury in a year has never exceeded 30 million taels of silver.

In the past few years, due to the different degrees of disasters in various places, the tax silver of the Great Qin Empire has fallen to the freezing point of history, only less than five million taels.

This money is not enough to pay for military salaries and the salaries of officials in various places.

Not to mention the silver taels that must be spent every year in order to help the victims.

In the past six months or so, if there is no charity fundraising made by Yang Dewen, it will be difficult for the imperial court to maintain the operation of the regime.

However, although the imperial court has no money and the treasury is empty, there will definitely be no shortage of money in the hands of wealthy businessmen in the people.

And in the families of various powerful officials, even if the imperial court does not spend money for ten years, I am afraid that there are few officials, and the family will be so poor that they can't open the pot.

However, Yang Dewen told Emperor Qin Kaiyuan that as long as he got through the current difficulties, he would scare Hu Chu State away.

A year later, the imperial court borrowed 10 million taels of silver from the private sector, and after the debt expired, the imperial court could also borrow from the private sector again to pay for the 10 million loan due this time.

As long as the people taste the sweetness, in the future, the imperial court is issuing this kind of loan, I am afraid that many people will line up to buy it, waiting to lend money to the imperial court.

Yang Dewen said this, but he was not joking.

Although there were also money banks in this era, money banks would also issue silver tickets.

However, if you deposit real money in the bank, there is no interest on your money, and if you deposit real money in the bank, the bank will charge you a storage fee.

Although this money is not much, only 5/10,000, many people are willing to pay this money for convenience.

The rich don't care about the five taels of silver, and the rich don't have any extra silver, so they put it in the bank.

But now as long as you buy it, the loan bonds issued by the imperial court not only don't have to pay these five taels of silver, but you can also earn five hundred taels of silver in interest a year.

If you have 100,000 taels of silver, won't you be able to earn an extra income of 5,000 taels a year?

This temptation is a great temptation for ordinary people in the 21st century.

Not to mention in this day and age.

As soon as the notice of the imperial court came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the people in the capital.

Rich people are hard to believe that there will be such a high interest.

People who have no money are sighing, if only I had 10,000 taels of silver, the interest of 500 taels of silver a year is enough for the family to eat and drink well every day, and no matter how much they use it, they can't spend it all.

Even if there is 1,000 taels of silver, the interest of 50 taels of silver a year is enough for the family to eat and drink.

In this era, because of the famine, the price of grain has risen a lot, but fifty taels of silver is enough for the family to live a well-off life.

The poor can't buy it, and the rich can't believe it, and they are all holding a wait-and-see attitude.

In the morning after the notice was issued, I went to various office locations and many people made inquiries.

There are very few people who really pay for the imperial court loan bonds, not only a few people. And at most, it is to buy a few tens of one hundred taels.

Qin Kaiyuan, the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, couldn't sit still again, and hurriedly sent Yang Dewen again, and asked anxiously.

"The proclamation has been posted for a morning, but there are very few people willing to lend money to the imperial court, and they have borrowed less than three thousand taels of silver in one morning.

If this continues, when the war with Huchu State reaches the capital, I am afraid it will be difficult to borrow tens of thousands of taels of silver. ”

In fact, Yang Dewen is not surprised by this situation, and the issuance of state bonds is a new thing after all.

Despite the high interest rate, everyone will have a heart to worry about whether the imperial court will fulfill this promise.

"Your Majesty! There are a huge number of officials in the capital, if Your Majesty can mobilize these officials and take the lead in buying bonds, wouldn't those ordinary people have a lot less worries? Yang Dewen smiled and said.

"Do this? Isn't it a little too good? It's as if His Majesty is forcing them to give them money. His Majesty Emperor Qin Kaiyuan said with some hesitation.

"Your Majesty, now that the imperial court has reached a very difficult time, the treasury is empty, it is difficult to make ends meet, it is really difficult to support too many officials, it is time to dismiss a group of officials who do not want to serve the imperial court.

Whoever can borrow money for the imperial court, of course, is an official who works for the imperial court, such an official, of course, the imperial court will try to retain his position, and even appropriately raise it, it is not impossible.

As for those officials who were unwilling to do their best when the court needed him to serve, they could only abdicate and make way for Xian. ”

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His Majesty Qin Kaiyuan, the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, looked at Yang Dewen in front of him, speechless for a long time, the more he understood the meaning of Yang Dewen, the more he felt that Yang Dewen was unfathomable.

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