Chapter 367: The Ticket Number Benefiting the Country
Coming out of the royal ticket number, Chao Yong came to the palace.
When the palace guards saw the prince entering the palace, they all looked pious, as if it was not the prince who came, but a fairy. Without him, the prince only used one sentence to defeat the Liao soldiers.
When the Liao State was established two hundred years ago, it was like a mountain pressing on the head of the Central Plains, and it came to plunder from time to time. After Song Taizong succeeded to the throne, he took advantage of the fact that the founding generals were all there, and attacked Liao twice, but they were both defeated. In the hands of Song Taizong's son Song Zhenzong, he signed the Yuanyuan Alliance, and exchanged the New Year's coins for the Liao State to no longer invade the south on a large scale. As for the life and death of the people on the border, it is really not enough to worry about the huge Song Dynasty.
In fact, the Song Dynasty was the victorious side in the Battle of Lanyuan, but Song Zhenzong decided to "reward" the Liao State in exchange for peace between the two countries, despite the opposition of the famous minister Kou Zhun. Probably because Song Zhenzong felt that he was inferior to his father, and the generals under him were not as good as the founding generals, his father lost, if he fought, he was afraid that the result would not be as good as his father, so he spent money to buy peace.
After Song Zhenzong, the emperors of each generation are getting weaker and weaker, although there is an alliance between the two countries, the two countries generally maintain peace, but small conflicts are still continuous, and the results of the Song army have experienced more victories and fewer defeats, half of the victories and defeats, less victories and more losses, and finally defeated without a fight. Among them, of course, there was a decline in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, but more often it was the cowardice of the Song Dynasty emperors.
This time the prince went on an expedition, and the world saw the determination of Daliang to resist foreign aggression, but most people did not have much confidence in the prince's victory over Liao, after all, the prince only had 50,000 soldiers and horses. Only the Liangshan veterans felt that the prince was a star descending from the earth and was invincible.
In the end, the result was just as expected by the Liangshan veterans, which once again proved that the prince was invincible and won them a lot of money.
Chao Yong arrived outside the vertical arch hall, and asked that the morning court had not dispersed, so he asked the guards a few words, and then came to the harem.
When Chao Yong arrived at the Funing Palace, he saw that He was making a female celebrity.
The harem originally had two halls, the Funing Hall and the Kunning Palace, one was the emperor's bedroom, and the other was the queen's bedroom, but Chao Gai did not accept any more concubines, and the He family thought that the two halls consumed too many materials, and the two of them combined to idle the Kunning Palace.
Chao Gai used to be a money-spender surname, but after becoming the emperor, he also had to consider the long flow. In order to win the hearts of the people, agricultural taxes and forced labor were exempted, and only commercial taxes remained, and the expenditure of the imperial court did not decrease, but with the continuous expansion of the territory, the silver of the treasury was generally sprinkled out, and it was not allowed to be covered carefully.
Daliang did not lack the money and grain consumed by the war, although there was a famine in the first two years, but Cai Jing and other annihilators did not collect less grain, and every granary in the Song Dynasty was full. Although the treasury left over from the Song Dynasty was empty, after raiding the homes of Cai Jing and other ministers, the treasury was also full.
There is no shortage of money and food, but the weapons and armor consumed by the war are somewhat lacking. There were many craftsmen who made armor in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the commander of the forbidden army was Gao Yu, and the military camps were demolished by Gao Yu to build a mansion. Of course, you don't have to do it, because no one dares to check Gao Yu's account.
It wasn't until later that the imperial court set the strategy of Lianjin to destroy Liao, and Gao Yu wanted to share some credit from it, so he leaked some silver from his fingers and got a batch of armor and weapons.
Otherwise, the Great Liang is likely to capture Tokyo, and he will not be able to include troops, because there is no armor available. The original forbidden army armor? Most of the original forbidden army went to work as craftsmen for Gao Yu, or made a living by themselves, and paid for Gao Yu to replace him. There are not many forbidden troops participating in the training, and naturally there are not many soldiers.
Lianjin destroyed Liao, and the Song Dynasty originally planned to send 150,000 to 200,000 troops, and it was not bad to have armor to support these many soldiers and horses. But Daliang didn't get these armor weapons, because the Liangshan Uprising and the Fangla Uprising were unexpected, and the weapons of Lianjin to destroy Liao were allocated to these two soldiers. Fortunately, the armor along the way to attack Daliang basically fell into the hands of Daliang, and because there was no continuous vicious battle, the consumption was not large.
However, if the Liang wants to expand the soldiers and horses, expand the territory, the original weapons and armor are insufficient.
Therefore, after the Great Liang laid down Tokyo and counted the family wealth left by the Song Dynasty, he asked the Craftsman Institute to step up the manufacture of weapons and armor.
When He saw his son coming, he put down the female red in his hand and said, "Rest?" ”
After the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, the He family became more loving to his son and no longer controlled him. Because after the founding of the Great Liang People's Republic of China, Chao Yong has been running around and fighting, and there are only a handful of people who have rested, and the child is a piece of meat that fell from his mother's body, and He Shi saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.
Chao Yong nodded and said, "Well, the child is young and strong, and it will be relieved after a day of rest." ”
In fact, Chao Yong was relieved for half a day, and the other half was devoted to the fragrant war, but that was also to relax his tense nerves. But he was embarrassed to tell his mother about this.
He said: "Sanniang and Feng'er are okay?" ”
He already knew that Chao Yong had taken many concubines, and was happy that the Chao family was about to disperse, but she was not interested in knowing what those women were called. Although she is also a woman, in her opinion, most women are just a tool to continue the incense. Maybe she will know the name of the person who gave birth to the grandchildren of the Chao family, otherwise she will probably only know Hu Sanniang.
In the past, she didn't like Hu Sanniang, who only knew how to dance with guns and sticks, but after getting married, Hu Sanniang, who was gentle and virtuous, liked He very much. In He's opinion, the current Hu Sanniang is gentle and graceful, and she has been on the battlefield again, so she will definitely be able to suppress the other concubines of the palace and take care of the palace in an orderly manner, so that the prince does not have to worry about the affairs of the harem.
Chao Yong nodded and said, "Well, it's all good, my mother will go to the Taigong Palace when she is free, don't be bored here to be a female celebrity." The inner library has no money, so I will go back and ask someone to send 10,000 yuan. ”
He said with a smile: "My father and mother know that your royal ticket number has made money, and your father and I don't need much money, and there are still tens of thousands of dollars in the inner library." Your father said that the officials of the DPRK and China have a good opinion of your ticket number, and said that pooling the money that the people do not use and lending it to the businessmen can make the businessmen's business bigger, the court can also receive more taxes, and the people can also earn some interest, and you also make money, so it can be said that all the people involved have benefited. Although you don't go to the court to ask about political affairs, you have done a lot of things for the court. ”
Chao Yong naturally knew the benefits of the ticket number, but his original idea was just to earn some money for the expenses of the Tai Womb. Unexpectedly, he was seen by the ministers who were "as wise as a torch", and he couldn't deny it anymore.
In fact, many people in the Northern Song Dynasty have begun to study currency circulation, and Shen Kuo, who wrote "Mengxi Writings", once said: "Money is conducive to borrowing." The ten-room city, with 100,000 yuan of money and a family of one person, although 100,000 years old, 100,000 yuan. Trade and move it, so that people can enjoy 100,000 profits, all over the ten rooms, then a hundred knives. The money is not enough. ”
That is to say, the money is hidden in the home and will never increase, but it will generate profits when it enters circulation. This realization predates the emergence of the same concept in the West hundreds of years.
However, Shen Kuo only pointed out this problem and did not find a good solution. Wealthy businessmen can use their money to do business and generate more profits, but for ordinary people, a few yuan or even a few hundred dollars is not enough to do a business, and they have other means of making a living, so it is impossible to change their careers for such a small amount of money. So Shen Kuo is also referring to people with a lot of wealth, so let them not hide their money.
The appearance of the royal ticket number really allows the people to take out their spare money and enter the circulation. It's not that Shen Kuo can't think of this, but he is bound by the limitations of the times and morality. If Shen Kuo saw Chao Yong's approach, he might still scoff at it. Obtaining the people's money at a low interest rate and then lending it to merchants at a high interest rate is undoubtedly sucking the blood of the people in the eyes of the "noble" people.
If the ticket number was not opened by the prince, and the prince carved many people on the stone tablet, so that they would be stinking for 10,000 years, I am afraid that the practice of the ticket number will be sprayed by people with high morals. Of course, this kind of people with high morals and do not eat the fireworks of the world must be a very small minority, and most people value whether they can profit from it, and as for someone to make money from it, they are also acceptable, after all, there is no businessman who is not here to make money.
(To be continued)