Chapter 231: War Debt
Tao Qiu, Dai Yan once again received a letter from his apprentice, such as today's British lord Zhao Houyong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This has been a common occurrence in the past five years. In the past five years, whenever Zhao Yong encountered some problems in the implementation of Hufu cavalry shooting, he would actually write to Dai Yan to ask. And Dai Yan also relied on his later insights, as well as his current experience in Taoqiu, to give Zhao Yong some suggestions. These suggestions actually helped Zhao Yong solve many problems encountered in the reform!
And this time, after Dai Yan received Zhao Yong's letter, from some of the complaints, he had already learned about the predicament that Zhao Yong was facing. Among them, Zhao Guo wanted to crusade against Lin Hu, but he lacked information about money, which made Dai Yan's eyes suddenly brighten!
For Tao Qiu, five years have passed. In the past five years, every year, Dai Yan will find an excellent industry to boost Taoqiu's economy, which has also made Taoqiu's economy rise exponentially in recent years, and Taoqiu can become so prosperous!
It is this kind of crazy development that changes a year that makes it extremely easy for Taoqiu people to make money today, and by making the life of Taoqiu people better and better, Dai Yan has also gained endless loyalty!
Such a method of increasing the recognition of Taoqiu by the people through economic development, Dai Yan also learned from later generations. However, this year, Dai Yan was a little worried, because before receiving Zhao Yong's letter, he had not found an industry that could boost Taoqiu's economy.
Now, he has finally found that this industry has the most lucrative industry in later generations, and it is war!
Soon, Dai Yan sent a powerful team of envoys to the Zhao State. The leader of this team is Dai Yan's most trusted advisor Tian Buli, and the members of this team are also very complicated. Among them, there are disciples of the Mo family and peasant families, as well as big merchants of Taoqiu, and some factory owners of Taoqiu. And the most important person in it is undoubtedly Xiaorou, the concubine who married to Taoqiu with Zhao Xue, and the cronies of Zhao Xue's guards.
When this group of figures arrived in Handan, Tian Buli was immediately received by Zhao Yong. When Zhao Yong was talking to Tian Buli in private, Tian Buli immediately slowly explained the task that his lord had sent him to Zhao State.
"Marquis Zhao, the lord of my family heard that you were crusading against Lin Hu, but he was suffering from the dilemma of insufficient wealth. Under the persuasion of my housewife, I, Taoqiu, pity the border people of Zhao State, and am willing to help Zhao State raise funds and solve the financial problems needed by Zhao State to attack Lin Hu! Tian Buli said.
Hearing that Tao Qiu could help solve the financial problem of the crusade against Lin Hu, Zhao Yong's eyes suddenly lit up: "I don't know how your lord wants to help me Zhao Guo solve the financial problem of the crusade against Lin Hu?" ”
Tian Buli smiled slightly, and said to Zhao Yong: "My lord said that Zhao is a big country, and it is not that there is no money in his hands, but he is a little embarrassed now. The sovereign of my family is willing to come forward in person, and on the Taoqiu Exchange, my housewife will guarantee for Zhao Guo and issue a treasury bond for Zhao Guo. With this money, Zhao State can purchase all kinds of food and weapons, and then transfer them to Zhao State, so that the financial problems faced by Zhao State in crusading against Lin Hu will be solved! ”
As soon as Zhao Yong heard this, he immediately asked with a skeptical expression: "How much money can the merchant have, you must know that I am going to crusade against Lin Hu and go on an expedition to the grassland, which is a huge consumption... ”
"50 million money, is it enough?" Tian Buli immediately asked.
"50 million money, how much wealth is that?" Zhao Yongfa asked.
However, before Tian Buli could explain to him, Qiu Hao, the strategist beside Zhao Yong, immediately said to Zhao Yong excitedly: "Your Majesty, this is a huge fortune!" The money that Mr. Tian is talking about now refers to the five-baht money issued by Taoqiu, and now it is also circulating in my Zhao country! Its value is very stable and its value is extremely high! If it is converted into gold, one gold can be exchanged for about 25 yuan, and 50 million yuan is equivalent to 2 million gold! ”
For this envoy of the Song Kingdom, as soon as he opened his mouth, it was 2 million gold, which really shocked Zhao Yong. With 2 million gold, it is indeed possible to start a crusade against Lin Hu, but Taoqiu is such a small place, even if it is a little rich, can it transfer such a large amount of wealth at one time?
Zhao Yong asked his question, Tian Buli smiled, and explained to Zhao Yong: "The number of education bonds issued by my lord a few years ago easily reached 50 million gold, and my Taoqiu people easily made it up!" ”
Zhao Yong thus had a new understanding of Taoqiu's wealth, and then he asked: "When you say issuing treasury bonds, you mean borrowing money, right?" So you Taoqiu merchants lent me money, and if you want my sister to come forward, you are not free of charge, right? What benefits do you want from my Zhao Kingdom? ”
Tian Buli replied: "Zhao Hou is really wise! My Taoqiu's merchant lent money to Zhao Guo, although it was my lord who came forward, but the money was made by the merchant, and only if there was something beneficial, the merchant would do it! In our preliminary calculations, our Taoqiu Exchange can help Zhao Hou issue the first batch of 50 million war bonds, and the annual interest on this money is 50%, which is the benefit that my Taoqiu businessman hopes to get. Of course, Zhao Hou doesn't have to pay back this money next year, and it's okay to postpone it for a few years, just include the interest. ”
As the monarch of Zhao State, Zhao Yong naturally knew that merchants borrowed money to collect interest. And unlike other monarchs, because he has a lot of contact with Dai Yan, this monarch still knows a lot about business. In particular, he personally reformed the horse administration in the western part of the Zhao State, and also participated in the tea and horse trade between the Zhao State and Taoqiu, and had a deep understanding of the transactions. He even knew that the interest on loans between ordinary businessmen was calculated on a monthly basis, and the current monthly interest rate in Zhao was generally above 5%.
In this way, it is still very polite for the businessmen to borrow money from Zhao Guo at an annual interest rate of 50%. This kind of interest is actually not very high.
Zhao Yong nodded, indicating that he was willing to accept such conditions, and then asked, "The merchants should lend me money and make some money." What other conditions do you have? ”
Tian Buli called someone from Taoqiu's large team and said to Zhao Yong: "The other condition is naturally that my Taoqiu merchants and factory owners hope that Zhao Hou can use the borrowed money to buy food and weapons through my Taoqiu trading house. ”
As soon as Tian Buli finished speaking, Zhao Yong categorically refused: "This is absolutely impossible!" Food and weapons are the logistics of my Zhao army's expedition, the most important thing to fight, if you are made responsible, if something goes wrong, how can you afford it? ”
Tian Buli smiled slightly, and said to Zhao Yong: "Zhao Hou, don't be in a hurry to refuse!" Zhao Hou should know that now my Taoqiu's grain exchange is famous all over the world, and the grain in my Taoqiu's major merchants is also extremely rich! Even if Zhao Hou got such a large amount of money, in fact, he had to go to other countries to buy grain, Zhao Hou was not so troublesome, it was better to leave this matter to me, after all, the grain in the hands of our Taoqiu merchants is very rich, and in such a large transaction, it can definitely save a lot of money for Zhao Guo!
As for the supply of grain, the merchants of Taoqiu can guarantee the transfer of the grain needed by the Zhao State to Handan! If there is any problem with the food supply of Zhao State at that time, even if Zhao Hou does not go to those merchants, my lord and mother will definitely not tolerate the continued existence of these profiteers in Taoqiu!
As for the weapons produced by the major factories in Taoqiu, Zhao Hou should not be busy refusing, you can first take a look at the style and price of these weapons, and then compare them with the weapons produced by Zhao Guo himself, Zhao Hou naturally knows that our suggestion is really for the sake of Zhao Guo! This Mr. Zou beside me is a recognized technical expert in the major military factories in Taoqiu, this time when he came to Zhao State, they also brought their own weapons, Zhao Hou saw the weapons they provided, and naturally he would make a decision! ”
When Zhao Yong heard Tian Buli say this, he asked Qiu Hao, a strategist beside him, to inquire, and he soon learned about the strength of the major trading houses in Taoqiu, and also knew the scale of their grain business. After this, he immediately agreed to purchase grain through the Taoqiu Trading Company.
Afterwards, he personally walked into the school field near Zhao Gong and asked Mr. Zou to demonstrate to him the weapons produced by Taoqiu!
The structure is simple, yet it can easily shoot a crossbow bolt into a bed crossbow up to 400 meters away! The structure is complex and capable of throwing a round stone projectile into a ballista at a distance of 500 meters! These two weapons directly surprised this prince with extremely high military talent!
With such a powerful weapon, is it still difficult to break through a city?
Subsequently, the standard crossbow manufactured by the Taoqiu Divine Crossbow Factory also made Zhao Yong greatly admired!
Such a divine crossbow is a product that has been specially optimized and transformed by the mechanical experts of the Mo family. Its structure is somewhat different from the crossbow of this era, its winding method is not to use the hand to load the crossbow string, but to turn a special pulley on the crossbow machine, after turning the pulley, the string of the crossbow machine will quickly reverse, and when it retreats to a certain time, the protruding teeth on the fuselage will only automatically jam the crossbow string.
At this time, you can install the special crossbow arrow on the crossbow machine, and after fixing the crossbow arrow, you can easily pull the trigger and launch the crossbow arrow! In order to take care of the accuracy, this crossbow also adds a specific lookout mountain to the crossbow machine, which makes it possible for a beginner to master the use of this standard crossbow very well!
Zhao Yong was very interested in this divine crossbow, personally took out a divine crossbow, and tested it with Zhao Guo's rhinoceros armor, and the result was that at a distance of 100 meters, this divine crossbow could also shoot the target extremely accurately, and shoot the rhino armor directly through!