Xu calmly listened to Fan Xiang's talk about the party's printing of banknotes, and nodded: "Hao thief's methods are vicious, Zhang Yuan is really his temperament to do this." Snakes and rats have their own ways, and it is not all a fluke that he can get to where he is today. With the wealth scavenged with paper money, the thief will be able to fight for a few more years, and it seems that the thief will not be able to be destroyed for a while. ”

Fan Xiang arched his hand: "After strategy, the lower official has an idea, but I don't know if it is feasible or not." ”

"Tell me about it. To do things is to brainstorm and everyone put forward their own ideas. ”

"The paper and ink used by the thieves to print the money were all bought from us. Even the craftsmen who made the plates were found with our help. After a brief introduction, we might as well print out the money according to the appearance of the money printed by the thief and spend it in the territory of the thief. In this way, we don't need to say a penny to be able to buy goods from the territory of the thief, wouldn't it be good? ”

Listening to Fan Xiang's words, Xu Ping shook his head with a smile: "General judgment, your method sounds good, but it actually doesn't work." If Fanjing is now rich in goods and has everything, you can buy anything with money, so it is naturally good to do so. But now the prices in the territory of the thieves are expensive, and the goods are in short supply, and you can't buy the goods with the money, so this method will not work. The most difficult thing with paper money is not how to print the money, but how to spend it after it is printed. We have printed people's banknotes here, how do we spend them? In fact, there is no way, and forcibly spending it may make the eyeliner we arrange in Fanren be discovered, and the gains outweigh the losses. You have to understand that the paper money printed by the thief is not for private trade, but only a means for him to loot wealth from the people, and the use of paper money is just a means he chooses. We don't have the ability to forcibly loot wealth from Fanjing, and the money printed out has no effect. Now the powerful people in Fanjing, the powerful chiefs of the major clans, must have all the money that the thieves forcibly sent to them in their hands, and they will not ask for it if we give it to them for nothing. ”

Fan Xiang lowered his head and thought for a while, then he understood this truth. Money was born in response to the commodity economy, and at this time, the commodity economy, which was already small in the party's territory, had basically disappeared, and the currency had lost its original role. Yuan Hao asked Zhang Yuanyin to print the banknotes, which were not used to buy things at all, but only a means to forcibly loot wealth from the people, and there was no such means here in Xu Ping, Qinzhou, so the money was printed as waste paper. To put it bluntly, the banknotes of the party items are not used to buy things now, but to snatch things from the hands of the people at the bottom, and even in the party items, it is not easy to spend the money with it. Fan Xiang is a group of officials with financial expertise who grew up after Xu Ping's New Deal of the Three Divisions, which is not understandable.

Xu Ping said: "The initial printing of banknotes in the territory of the thieves will inevitably be used in the private sector for a period of time at the beginning, and the length of time is difficult to say, maybe a year or two, maybe a few months. Just look at whether the thief scraped the land this time ruthlessly, he scraped hard, desperately printing money, maybe no one will use this money in a month or two. We don't need to interfere with the thief to do this, as long as we can get a piece of the pie when the thief scrapes money from the realm. Therefore, we should not bother him to print money, but take advantage of this time, when the powerful people in the realm have gold, silver, cattle and sheep scraped up, use wine, tea, and silk to exchange the goods in their hands to us. In doing so, it is much more profitable than the money of the Indian thief. ”

Fan Xiang bowed his hand: "It is said that the next official will arrange it when he goes back, and sell some wine and tea to Fanjing these days." Hao thief saw a lot of goods, maybe he would have to exaggerate what Yuan would do. ”

Xu Ping clapped his palm: "That's right!" The small people are like ants, drinking their blood and ripping their flesh, and at first they can't see it, and the Hao chiefs among the thieves may really think that they have printed paper money to make them rich. This is the best, and now the goods that the thieves are lacking are in our hands, and no matter what, a copy of this dynasty is indispensable. Okay, don't think too much about the thief's printing of money, just do everything according to what you did before, so as not to embarrass Tong Dalang and the sick lieutenant, just sell more goods. ”

Fan Xiang promised. When you have the upper hand, you must keep the results, don't act rashly, and avoid a greedy word whether it is a person or a country. Now Qinzhou can make a steady profit through smuggling trade, and there is no need to do something superfluous.

Xu Ping suddenly remembered something and asked Fan Xiang: "In the first two months, you were asked to send someone to buy horses from the Western Regions, did you have any results?" ”

"Just as I was about to report the strategy, the man who had been sent to buy horses had returned. They did not go far to the Western Regions, but when they arrived in Shazhou, they saw that there were horses in the horse market that were suitable for our use, so they bought 500 horses and came back. According to the instructions of the scriptures, they bought all the best horses at any price, three hundred and fifty stallions and one hundred and fifty mares. ”

"Very good! Fighting against thieves, you can't do it without horses, and you can't do it if you don't have horses. Horses are related to the victory or defeat of the army, and have a great impact on the imperial court. To the north of the Wei River, there is the horse supervisor in the Tang Dynasty, and the area around Dingxi City is also the pasture garden in the Han Dynasty, and the horses are excellent. I wrote to the Privy Council and the Herding Division, and transferred a commander from the horse herding supervisors around the capital, all of whom were skilled in horse breeding and very skilled. For horses bought from the Western Regions, you arrange a separate pasture, don't choose a good local mare, and let them feed it. Remember to choose a pasture that should be isolated from the pastures of the surrounding herdsmen, and it is not allowed to mix with horse breeds, and you can't be sloppy. Since last year, the surrounding areas of Qinzhou have been merged into villages, and the people have been accustomed to grazing, and although they still live by herding after the merger of the villages, they are no longer nomadic, and they have become normal villages. This method should be learned by the horse husband, at least semi-settled, and the horses in the prison should be numbered, and a good herd of horses should be bred. ”

Fan Xiang nodded and promised, Xu Ping's meaning was very clear, in the future, the horse supervisor in Qinzhou would be taken care of by Fan Xiang, the general judge, and Shi Yannian would take care of the other stall. Grazing does not have to be nomadic, as long as the productivity level is up and the technology can keep up, the cattle, sheep and horses can be grazed as well as settled or semi-sedentary. The seeds have been widely distributed this year, and farmers have scattered the seeds around many villages. Alfalfa is a high-quality forage grass, and it can also be used for disaster relief in early spring when the grass is not green, and the young alfalfa seedlings at that time are very good food. Alfalfa cultivation has a scale, which can be harvested and made into hay, which can be used as feed for livestock in autumn and winter, and with the grain provided after the development of agriculture, many herdsmen have no need to relocate. For the Central Plains Dynasty, the herdsmen were difficult to manage, and the most important thing was that they were uncertain in their migration, and once settled, the government could organize them into households in the same way as the peasants.

In the future, if the sphere of influence of the Great Song Dynasty is pushed north of the Yellow River from the Mabit Mountain and Tiandu Mountain, it will still face the problem of managing the herdsmen under its rule. In order to completely solve the problem of the nomadic people in the north who invaded the south, we can only use various methods to achieve the same household and people as in the Central Plains.