Silver, where do you get a large sum of money? Li Qing sat in the study, rubbing his forehead, only to feel that his head was about to explode, the resettlement of the people who had relocated wanted silver, the soldiers wanted the army, the officials wanted salaries, the casting of weapons, transportation, everything required a large amount of silver, that is, the war horse, every consumption is a large amount, that is not an ordinary horse, a little forage can be sent, they really have to eat food every day.

The door knocked gently, someone walked in, Li Qing didn't have to look back, he knew that Qingfeng was coming, and there were only two people who could walk into his study without notice, one was Tang Hu, and the other was Qingfeng.

A pair of soft hands rested on his shoulders and kneaded them gently, Li Qing leaned on the back of the chair silently, enjoying the gentleness of the breeze, but his face was still sad.

"General, are you still worried about money?" Qingfeng asked softly.

"Yes, I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are if I don't have a family, now, I really realize this, if I don't think about it, we will be about to be unable to open the pot in Dingzhou." Li Qingdao.

"There is really no way, so I can only open my mouth to the Li family and borrow some silver to save the emergency." Li Qingdao.

"General, the Li family is far away from our Dingzhou, and our Dingzhou is in urgent need of silver, is it too late?" Qingfeng replied.

"It's better to have hope than nothing!" Li Qingdao said, "I really can't think of a rut. ”

"Or, add a war tax in the two states of Dingfu. I think the people of the two states can also understand, as long as the barbarians can be eliminated, the people will support it no matter how difficult it is. ”

"No way!" Li Qing refused, "In the past two years, Dingzhou has been in the midst of war, and the people have been bitter enough, they have paid enough for Dingzhou, not only to pay, but also to give their lives, how can I take advantage of their last bit of life money." ”

"That..."Qingfeng hesitated for a moment, and said: "General, we have settled in the two states, there are many wealthy gentry, these families are all worth a lot, and they are not very clean, our statistical investigation department has this evidence, we can use this as a basis to raid these wealthy families, presumably we can raise some funds to solve the current crisis." ”

Ahem, Li Qing coughed violently, turned his head, stared at Qingfeng, and said, "Qingfeng, what kind of bad idea are you?" Not by all. ”

"Why not?" Qingfeng stared at Li Qing and said, "Which one of these families is not extremely rich, and the stains on their bodies do exist, it is not that I defile them and take them down, killing two birds with one stone." Just like we did against the Fang family back then. ”

Li Qing sighed, "Qingfeng, this time is also that time, at that time, if we didn't take the Fang family, we couldn't effectively control Dingzhou, but now, it's different, we have a firm foothold in Dingfu and Fuzhou, and if we want to make a difference, we have to rely on the support of these family gentry, these family gentry don't have an intertwined relationship in Dachu, and they will start the whole body." Think about it, who are the people who operate our current Commerce and Trade Division, and where does the money earned every day come from? Killing them can indeed raise a large sum of money in a short period of time, but what about later? Killing chickens and taking eggs is absolutely unacceptable. What's more, the wealthy family of Da Chu is clean, even our Li family is not clean. ”

"When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives!" Li Qing stared at the breeze and said word by word.

"Yes, General, I was wrong. However, General, our Statistical Survey Division has received some rumors that it may be a considerable blow to our finances, which will make matters worse, and at present, I am verifying the authenticity of these information! ”

"What's the news?" Li Qing was taken aback, now he is very sensitive to everything that involves silver.

"Some forces in Da Chu seem to want to attack our Dingzhou, and they are ready to cut off our business network and crack down on our illegal salt trade."

"What did you say?" Li Qing stood up suddenly, the income from private salt now accounts for about three or four percent of the military expenditure of the two prefectures in Dingfu, and if the private salt is attacked by a strong attack from within Dachu, it will be worse for the current situation in Dingzhou.

"Is the message accurate?" Li Qing asked in a deep voice.

"Although there is no final verification, it is also ** not far from ten, general, we have to prepare early!" The breeze is worried.

Li Qing walked around the room a few times and sneered: "It seems that some people don't want us to defeat the barbarians so quickly, and even do such a thing that takes a salary from the bottom of the kettle and disregards the interests of the entire Great Chu." Did you report this matter to Lu Yiming? ”

Qingfeng shook his head, "I haven't verified it yet, so I didn't report Lu Yiming, but I informed Cui Yicheng and asked him to reduce shipments and try to reduce losses after the incident." ”

"Since they want to crack down on our illegal salt, they must also have to do tricks with food and other strategic materials." Li Qing is very annoyed, this year's war, Dingyuan and other three counties are basically out of harvest, grain and other materials will be more tight, that is, now, the price of grain in the market has begun to rise, although the state is still forcibly pressing, but if you can't buy food, the state can't be suppressed. After all, Dingzhou is not a large producer, and it needs to purchase a large amount of grain from outside every year.

"You should inform Lu Yiming of this matter immediately, discuss with him, no matter what, you must first free up a sum of money to rush to buy a batch of grain in, and in addition, let Lao Lu send someone out to mediate, and buy as much grain as possible in the state with which we have a good relationship." Li Qing commanded.

After a pause, he said, "Inform An Guogong and the Li family of this matter, now, we need their support." ”

"Yes!" Qingfeng said: "I will do these things immediately, but, general, doing these things requires a large sum of silver, and others will not give us food credit, what about the silver?" Even if we borrow, we can't borrow it for a while! ”

"Borrow?" Li Qing's eyes lit up, "Yes, we can borrow it, who can we borrow it from, there is, Huzi, Huzi!" ”

Outside the door, Tang Hu entered in response, "Handsome! ”

"Send someone immediately to join the army, and Lord Lu will invite you!" Li Qing commanded one after another.

"General, do you have a way?" Seeing Li Qing's eyes shining, Qingfeng couldn't help but be happy, and Li Qing said excitedly: "Yes, I have a way." ”

Soon, Shang Haibo and Lu Yiming came together, and it seemed that the two of them had a lot of verbal fights along the way, and their faces were not very good-looking, blowing each other's beards and glaring.

"I've got a way to get the money." Li Qing looked at the two of them and said word by word.

Shang Haibo and Lu Yiming looked at each other, looking at Li Qing without saying a word, how much effort did it take, and the handsome man came up with a way? But can this white silver pop out of the crack in the stone?

"Lord Lu, what do you say we are going to restore the rich people in the two states?" Li Qing asked.

"Many, especially Fuzhou, although it has been swept away by the mountain wind, there are still many super-rich families." Lu Yiming is very honest.

"Will the people have money left in their hands?" Li Qing asked again.

Lu Yiming was shocked, "Dashuai, you don't want to raise taxes, you promised it at the beginning, and at this time, it will be bad for your reputation!" ”

"I don't raise taxes!" Li Qing is categorical.

"So how can you get the money out?" Lu Yiming was a little confused.

"We've found a debt roll!" Li Qingdao.

"Debt?" The two of them said in unison and asked in surprise, "What is this?" ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "It is to borrow money in the name of the political axe, we pay interest, and I give two cents, no, three points of interest." ”

Shang Lu and the others jumped up at the same time, "How can this work?" Dashuai, isn't this Yin eating food? Even if the common people and the rich people lend us money, how will we pay it back? Besides, they don't necessarily lend us money. ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "Why don't you borrow, I will use the finances of the two states as a guarantee, issue bonds, and the interest rate of three points is almost usury, is it possible that they can hide the silver at home and have a son, lend it to me, and you can have a son, not to mention, our war with the barbarians has been won in a certainty, those wealthy families will not see this, if they win this battle, there will be anything." You might as well publicize to them that those nobles on the grassland are full of gold and silver, as long as we win the battle and rob these things back, are we afraid that we will not be able to repay their money? ”

Shang Haibo tilted his head and thought for a while, "That's the same." ”

"As for where the people are, the old way, you might as well go to Xiaoyi Dayi, and tell them that every time you buy a tael of silver from the government, it is equivalent to giving the army an extra spear, how to say that you go down and think about it yourself, in short, let the people use all the dead money hidden at home."

Lu Yiming said with a sad face: "Dashuai, it's easy to cheat money, but how can you pay back the money when you arrive?" After deducting all the taxes paid by the two states, what will happen next year and the year after? If you can't pay the money, Dashuai, you will lose your trust to the people! ”

Li Qing smiled and said, "Old Lu, why don't you understand?" After winning this battle, we will determine whether the finances of the two states will get better soon, and when they get better, we will have the money to return to the people, and at the same time pay them interest, which also makes the people make money, and the people have money in their pockets, which is naturally to be used, where to use it, not in our own area, as long as they use it, we can collect more taxes, and so on, and so on, isn't the finance better than the other? Hahaha, this is called stimulating consumption, who has money in their pockets, and doesn't take it out to buy a few pieces of jewelry for his wife and a few new clothes for his baby? What's more, if it doesn't work next year, we can still pay off the old debt and borrow new debt! Therefore, we are not cheating money, but invigorating the economy! ”

Lu Yiming was dumbfounded, he really didn't understand Li Qing's theory. Shang Haibo was also shocked, but for him, as long as he could get money and maintain the strong combat effectiveness of the army, as for repaying the money, of course, it was Lu Yiming's business, and he didn't agree with it at the moment.

(To be continued)