[Ran^Text^Library] [ ] If this were the case, the alliance would have achieved no more economic results than the previous trade agreements

Yelu Hongji first put forward his request: "The Great Song Dynasty has succeeded in land reclamation, and the land in the northeast of our Great Liao is vast and rich, but it has not been developed as it should be. I hope that Emperor Xining can provide some experience and financial support. In return, the Great Liao did not restrict Song merchants from opening mines in Liao, nor did it restrict the flow of copper and iron ore and finished copper and iron products into the Great Song Dynasty. ”

It is no secret that the Great Song Dynasty was seriously ill with copper and iron, and there was a serious shortage of food. Since the signing of the trade agreement, trade has been booming. The commodities of trade are no longer limited to the consumption of luxury goods of the upper class, but gradually expand to the goods needed by the lower class people. For example, silk cloth and silk, such as all kinds of commodities needed in life, such as salt, agricultural tools and various civilian weapons.

Zhao Ji artificially promoted the development of industry and commerce, lagging behind the development of agriculture and restricting the development of industry and commerce. In the end, the Great Song Dynasty not only lacked copper and iron, but also lacked food.

After the expansion of trade, the self-sufficient handicraft industry of various countries was affected, and the goods of the Great Song Dynasty were not only exquisite, but also relatively cheap, which made the workshops of various countries bankrupt one after another. However, this did not cause panic in various countries, because the demand of Dasong is stronger, and the domestic market of Dasong is broader. After the bankruptcy of the workshops in various countries, they have been transformed, and the demand for basic raw materials such as Dasong sweaters, timber, and grain is very large, and the income from the sale of raw materials in various countries is much greater than the income produced by handicraft workshops.

The handicraft workshop technology in various countries is very underground, and the cost is relatively high. After purchasing the civilian weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, the sweaters obtained by hunting, the timber obtained by logging, and the medicinal materials obtained by collecting, the cost of obtaining these native products was relatively low, but the price of selling them to the Song merchants was high.

The domestic market of Dasong is vast, and foreign trade is still more imports than exports. If we use the viewpoint of later generations, all countries have now become the raw material production and sales markets of the Great Song Dynasty. This sentence is true, but the economy of the Great Song Dynasty is too big, not comparable to the surrounding countries, and the main raw material production and sales market of the Great Song Dynasty is still itself, and it does not completely rely on foreign trade.

On the contrary, because of the strong demand for raw materials in the Great Song Dynasty, the people of various countries became rich. This is the same reason that later Australia relied on selling iron ore to China to maintain domestic economic stability and ensure the high welfare of its citizens.

Therefore, the government hall under the chairmanship of Wang Anshi signed trade agreements with various countries to eliminate wars. In the eyes of the people of these countries, this act is the act of a saint who has rarely seen it for thousands of years! Wang Anshi has also become a virtuous minister in the hearts of people from all over the world. Driven by the economic development of the Great Song Dynasty, not only did the people of various countries gain benefits, but the government also received a lot of tax revenue. Because of this, Wang Anshi was able to rely on his own appeal to urge countries to meet in Beijing.

When Yelu Hongji made his request, Zhao Ji smiled and said: "This is unrealistic, it's not that I don't support it, but that none of your countries have this condition." Neither in terms of manpower nor the quality of the population, it can be done. How much time does it take for the people of Liao to understand various production processes like the people of the Great Song Dynasty? Do you know how to work intensively? When will the population of Liao be comparable to that of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"According to Emperor Xining's meaning, what should I do? Emperor Xining should have known that the simultaneous development of the economies of various countries was the basis of this alliance and the meaning of the existence of the Chinese Empire. Yelu Hongji said dissatisfied.

Without economic unity, without economic interconnection, there would be no political unity, whether it is the political science of later generations or the current Confucianism, there is such an analysis. Although Yelu Hongji is not proficient in Sinology, he will not be unaware of such a simple truth. It is also impossible for him to let the Liao State become the political foil of the Great Song Dynasty for nothing.

"Great Kandi misunderstood." Zhao Ji stood up and said with a smile: "The economic imbalance of various countries is not a fact that can be changed in the short term. Liaoxia and Xia took the coins of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, but what has changed? Therefore, now the help that the Great Song Dynasty can give to various countries can only be in books. The Great Song Dynasty changed the old practice of not exporting classics, and funded various countries to build libraries and flourish culture, which was enough to prove the sincerity of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Later generations have always believed that in historical China, the government under the imperial system pursued a policy of ignoring the people. In fact, this does not exist. Even Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism, but he had never heard of Qin Shi Huang forbidding the people to read. On the contrary, Qin Shi Huang has always encouraged learning, and "taking the law as the teaching and the officials as the teacher" is a policy to encourage learning. Although there are rules on what to learn, there is no restriction on learning. Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism, and the books burned were just some books with too extreme Confucian remarks.

The concept of burning books in that era should be similar to that of burning ** in later generations. At that time, what the people needed was for the great unified empire to end the 400-year-long war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, and Confucian books would only cause chaos and only affect the production of the people. Even though many of Qin Shi Huang's policies were considered rather brutal, they were needed by the great unified empire at the time.

For this reason, countries need the books of the Great Song Dynasty and need cultural prosperity. It can be said that there is no old custom of restricting the reading of ordinary people in Chinese countries. The common people are generally illiterate and do not understand cultural etiquette, which is the limitation of the times. Compared with Western countries at this time, only officials and monks were literate, whether it was the Great Song Dynasty or other Chinese countries, the literacy rate of the common people was much higher, and the level of education was much higher. Otherwise, Su Shi would not be so popular.

"Emperor Xining's mind, I naturally know." Yelu Hongji knew that he couldn't speak too stiffly, so he first affirmed Zhao Ji. "After Emperor Xining ascended the throne, the Great Song Dynasty underwent earth-shaking changes, bringing peace and prosperity to the Chinese countries. All of this is obvious to all. Emperor Xining's wisdom should be able to come up with a good solution, right? ”

What is a Politician? Politicians are a group of people who have learned to compromise with each other and profit from them. Compromise is at the heart of politics. Yelu Hongji's request to Zhao Ji was in fact a compromise with the Song Dynasty's economic policy of arranging the unification of the Chinese Empire.

Originally, the Great Song Dynasty, like other countries, faced many intractable contradictions, but in just four years, the Great Song Dynasty got out of trouble. Why? The predicament faced by the Great Song Dynasty before, the countries are not unaware, Zhao Ji's words have whetted all their appetites, and when everyone is racking their brains to think, Zhao Ji said slowly: "Jiaozi and the business alliance cabinet." The Great Song Dynasty treasury is empty, but it doesn't matter if the treasury is empty, I, the Great Song Dynasty, can borrow a lot of money from the Shangmeng cabinet. In particular, the financial resources required for the development of Huguang and Liuqiu were all borrowed from the Shangmeng Cabinet, and the Great Song Dynasty only needed to use the annual national tax to return the profits borrowed from the Shangmeng Cabinet. ”

Although Zhao Ji's statement is a bit exaggerated, after all, money is not a physical object, and money may not be able to buy things. Shangmeng Cabinet and Jiaozi have almost squeezed out the savings of several generations of landlords and wealthy families for hundreds of years, but Jiaozi does not have the storage function of copper coins, and a large number of copper coins will flow out, which will only cause currency depreciation and rising prices.

Indeed, all prices in the Great Song Dynasty have risen slightly. It is this slow inflation that makes all the landlords and wealthy businessmen look for investment projects and put money into the field of reproduction. The ancient method of making a fortune by saving money will only devalue the wealth accumulated by the family for hundreds of years, and only by constantly using money to make money can the wealth rise. However, land holdings could not increase so quickly, and land annexation could not accommodate so much capital.

Subsequently, under the encouragement of Zhao Ji and the guidance of the political hall presided over by Wang Anshi, projects such as the development of lakes and the development of lakes and mines, and the opening of workshops and mines were rapidly carried out. The economy of the Great Song Dynasty expanded rapidly, and the land output brought about by development increased by at least 30%, and the number of workshops increased exponentially.

However, an agrarian society has limitations that capital cannot break through. The production cycle is long and the production is unstable, which seriously restricts the speed of capital operation. In other words, the time required for a workshop owner and a mine owner from the initial investment to the final recovery of the cost is too long, generally speaking, one year is already the longest. As a result, many high-cost workshops are simply unattended.

In other words, the Great Song Dynasty is now facing this huge problem, that is, there must be continuous capital investment in the reproduction of the Great Song Dynasty economy, so as to ensure that the first capital investment system of the Great Song Dynasty can operate effectively and will not produce bubbles. Zhao Ji didn't want the Great Song Dynasty to become like the Soviet Union in later generations, all the workshops could not be started, and the ruins of industry were one after another.

The so-called capital, in this era, is undoubtedly the human and material resources that have been stored by society or have not yet been used. Zhao Ji's meaning, that is, to continue to develop like the Great Song Dynasty through other countries in China, almost squeezing out the national strength, and then continue to drive the development of the Great Song Dynasty handicraft workshops.

"Can Emperor Xining be specific?" Yelu Hongji couldn't see the economic model of industrial society like Zhao Ji who came through time, and he couldn't help but be confused by Zhao Ji.

Many historians believe that the root cause of China's failure to create an industrial civilization and enter the so-called capitalist society is the shackles of the small-scale peasant economy. However, Western Europe is much more shackled by the small-scale peasant economy than China, but why was it able to break free?

In fact, quite the opposite of what historians say. In order for the handicraft industry to transition to the machine industry, and for the agricultural society to enter the industrial society, first of all, the agricultural economy must be highly developed. For ancient China, compared with a certain country in Western Europe, both in terms of the scale of the agricultural economy and the scale of the handicraft economy, it was very large. But what if you don't compare countries individually, but the entire Confucian civilization with the Christian civilization? Obviously, the Christian civilization, which has developed the whole of the Americas, has far surpassed Confucian civilization in terms of economic scale, especially in the scale of agricultural production.

Where is all the economic power of the whole Christian civilization concentrated? United Kingdom. As a result, the Industrial Revolution broke out in Britain, which became the factory of Christendom, and immediately afterwards became the factory of the world.

Before the Industrial Revolution, Britain obviously could not compare with the Great Song Dynasty in terms of the scale of handicraft workshops, and the country's domestic demand could not be compared with the Great Song Dynasty. The strong domestic demand of the Great Song Dynasty would become the driving force behind the economic growth of the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, Zhao Ji did not heed the advice of Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, and wanted to restrict trade, especially the outflow of grain products, to ensure the stability of grain in the Great Song Dynasty. There are many grain products, the main one is wine, followed by some pastries.

Zhao not only did not impose restrictions, but also wanted to make the Great Song Dynasty more open and speed up the process of economic integration of the various member states of the Chinese Empire. Because of helping countries to engage in development, not only can countries get huge benefits, but Dasong will also get more rewards.

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