A few days later, Bi Shu and Bai Lixian returned directly to Luoyang from Liaodong, and Xiang Zhuang immediately convened a group of civil and military ministers and held the first court meeting after the relocation of the capital.

The new palace in Luoyang is rebuilt and expanded from the original Lu Ze's county guard's mansion, the scale of the building is far from being comparable with the Ziling Palace, and because of the age, it has been dilapidated, and the harem concubines who live in it are full of complaints, and Jieyu is complaining every day by Xiang Zhuang's pillow, but Xiang Zhuang is deaf to this.

Even Ling Yin Xiang said: "King, this palace is a little simpler, is it specially to gather thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of people to re-elect to build a palace?" Don't want to compare with the palace of Ziling, at least let the king live more comfortably. Xiang said so, and the ministers who participated in the court meeting also echoed it.

"I'll leave that at that." Xiang Zhuang refused without hesitation, if there are conditions, of course Xiang Zhuang is willing to live more comfortably, but is now the time to enjoy himself?

"Let's get down to business first." Xiang Zhuang said, "After moving the capital to Luoyang, all kinds of affairs are complicated, and it is not an overnight matter to sort out the clues, especially to put the affairs of Sanchuan County and the five counties of Wei on the right track, it will take a period of time, at least before the autumn grain harvest next year, it is absolutely impossible to use troops abroad." ”

Xiang He, Xiang Tuo, Bi Shu, Gao Chu, Wu She, and Baili Xian bowed silently.

Moving is a big deal, even if a small family moves from one place to another, there will be a lot of problems, such as the location of a new home, the repair of the house, the purchase of furniture and land, and the other is dealing with neighbors. Get acquainted with the local customs. And so on and so forth, a big basket.

This is not the case for small families, let alone the relocation of the capital of the country.

Xiang Zhuang continued: "How to transition during this time, all Aiqing will talk about it. ”

Gao Chu first said: "Great King, the minister thinks that the top priority is to suppress the bandits, the bandits in the Wei State are too rampant, if they are not eliminated as soon as possible, it will seriously affect the stability and development of the five counties of the Wei State." ”

Gao Chu had already reported to Xiang Zhuang alone, but no one else knew, and Xiang Zhuang said: "Shi Zhiling will tell everyone about the bandits in Wei." ”

Gao Chu explained the causes and current situation of the bandits in Wei as they were.

The banditry component of this Wei State is very complicated. There were those who occupied the mountains as kings earlier because they couldn't stand Peng Yue's brutal rule, and there were also those who went up the mountains and fell into the grass after the destruction of the Liang State by the Qi State, but more of them were defeated and fled from the battlefield of Shuishui, because several key roads back to Guanzhong were blocked by the Chu army. They could only flee to Wei and settle down in the grass.

In ancient times, Guanzhong was not blown, except for Hangu Pass, Wuguan and Hanzhong, there was no other way to go, Liu Banggui was the king of Han, didn't he have to venture into Yaoshan Mountain, and escaped back to Sanchuan County after nine deaths? And soon after escaping to Michi, he died with a whimper.

Liu Bang is still like this, and those defeated soldiers who fled from the battlefield can be imagined.

Now that the situation has eased up a bit, if we can prepare enough dry food. It's not without a chance to return to Guanzhong, but these routs have already missed the deadline for changing the wheel of the soldiers, and according to the law, they will be beheaded, and even affect their relatives in their hometowns, so these routs will never want to return to Guanzhong, and they simply fall into the grass in Weidi.

Baili Xian said: "But I didn't expect the bandits of Wei to be so rampant, but if they are handled well, these bandits may still be a big help for my Da Chu." ”

Xiang Tuo didn't believe it: "The military advisor's words are wrong. How can bandits be a help? ”

"Why can't it be a help?" Baili Xian said, "Liang Guogong also said just now that the bandits in the Wei State are all defeated and escaped from the Han army in the Shuishui battlefield, and most of these bandits are strong men, and the number is likely to exceed 100,000. If these bandits can be incorporated into households, then the farming of the Liang Kingdom will suddenly be changed! ”…,

Xiang Zhuang's heart suddenly moved slightly when he heard this. It's a great idea to turn trash into treasure.

"Collect the bandits as a household?" Xiang He said disapprerovingly, "How is this possible? ”

Bai Lixian smiled slightly, and then said: "Dare to ask Ling Yin, what is the reason why these bandits are bandits? ”

Xiang He said without thinking: "Then it goes without saying, of course it's for survival." ”

"Well, the reason why these bandits are bandits is to survive." Bai Lixian bowed his head lightly, and said, "Then, if the king gives them a household registration and gives each of them a hundred acres of land, does Yin think that these bandits will choose to continue to be bandits, or will they choose to wash their faces and become new people?" ”

"Give them a household, and then give them a hundred acres of land?" Xiang Tuo shouted, "Isn't this a bandit?" ”

Baili Xian said: "Taiwei, if these bandits have become households, how can they say that they are bandits?" ”

Xiang He and Xiang Tuo were speechless, and Xiang Zhuang looked around at Bi Shu, Wu She, and Gao Chu and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Wu Shi was silent, but Gao Chu bowed his head lightly and said: "King, the minister thinks that he can try it, but in fact, there are many bandits who have already married in the local area?" p>

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Bi Shu pondered for a moment and then said: "But there are also many bandits among these bandits who have accumulated years, if they just give a household loan and then give a hundred acres of land, I am afraid it will be difficult to deter, and the minister thinks that it is necessary to transfer government soldiers from various counties, adopt the strategy of suppressing and appeasing, and go to the counties to enter the government within a time limit, otherwise, there will be no forgiveness!" ”

Bai Lixian smiled and said: "It is worthy of being a general, and he hit the nail on the head with one word." ”

Xiang Zhuang said to Gao Chu: "At the beginning, when you go back, you will order the counties to post a list of documents, and the deadline is three months, if the robbers in each county can be naturalized within three months, they will be exempted from punishment and issued to the official household registration, and then give 100 acres of land, in addition to exempting the tax on money and grain for another three years, but if they do not enter within the time limit, they will be exterminated!" ”

"Whoa!" Gao Chu knelt down from the seat and sat up, and suddenly responded.

"Okay." Xiang Zhuang bowed his head lightly, and said, "There is another thing, Ebony Cliff has just sent back news from Guanzhong, it is said that Bai Mo intends to set up an official to specialize in salt and iron, in addition, there seems to be a dispute between the Han Kingdom and the Yue people, Bai Mo has ordered the closure of all checkpoints leading to Hexi, and strictly prohibits Guanzhong merchants from trafficking salt and iron to Hexi. ”

When he first received this secret letter, Xiang Zhuang thought that Wumuya had made a mistake, because in his memory, Hexi, which was Qinghai in later generations, although most of the area was occupied by large and small Qiang tribes, but the Hexi Corridor occupied by the Yueshi people also had a salt lake, how could the Yueshi people lack salt?

Later, after Qu Bucai's explanation, he finally understood that in ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, the circulation of information was not smooth, and the spread of production technologies such as iron smelting, salt making, and weaving was even more difficult, so the barbarian tribes such as Qiang, Di, Yueshi, Xiongnu, and Donghu did not know how to dry salt at all, let alone boil salt, so they relied heavily on the Central Plains to supply salt.

There is a saying, this is called guarding Baoshan and living a hard life.

"Salt and iron franchises?" Xiang He, Xiang Tuo, and Wu Shi didn't react, but Bi Shu and Bai Lixian's faces changed slightly.

Bai Lixian shook the feather fan lightly, and said to Bi Shu with a smile: "Learning the sword, this senior brother is really not simple, if the salt and iron monopoly can really be put into practice, the treasury of the Han State will be greatly enriched in a very short time, and the huge deficit brought by the defeat of the water will almost be able to survive the huge deficit in Guanzhong, right?" ”

Bi Shu also said sincerely: "Yes, this is indeed a wonderful move. ”

Xiang Tuo was confused and said: "What, is the salt and iron franchise very powerful?" ”

Bai Lixian said with a smile: "Taiwei, the salt and iron franchise is not very powerful, but it is very profitable, you only need to look at how rich the salt merchants who sell salt in Ziling are, you can know." "..., Xiang Zhuang out of the consideration of encouraging industry and commerce and expanding commerce, did not implement the national policy of salt and iron monopoly, but handed over these two huge cakes to private individuals to operate, of course, ordinary merchants are absolutely not qualified, and all the merchants who are qualified to enter the key fields such as salt, iron and grain are red-top businessmen like the Qin family in Badong.

Seeing that Bi Shu, Bai Lixian and the others didn't say anything, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but say: "Learn the sword, Ziliang, don't you think this is a good opportunity to loot the pass?" ”

"Well, ransack Guanzhong?" Xiang He and Wu Shi looked at each other.

Bai Lixian and Bi Shu glanced at each other, and they didn't know what Xiang Zhuang meant.

Gao Chu and Xiang Tuo were excited: "What, is the king going to use troops against Guanzhong again?" ”

"With soldiers?" Xiang Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and then shook his hand again and again, "No, no, no, it's not what they think, the widow is talking about business disputes, not military disputes." ”

"Business disputes?" Gao Chu and Xiang Tuo are still confused.

Xiang He and Wu Shi also didn't know what to say, but Bi Shu and Bai Lixian seemed to have some understanding.

For the ancients of this era, financial war is of course a completely unknown field, but the essence of financial war has long been a primitive academic research, financial war sounds mysterious, in fact, it is cheap to buy and expensive to sell, Bi Shu and Baili Xian have a huge amount of knowledge, naturally dabbled in this knowledge.

Xiang Zhuang's involvement in the financial field is also extremely superficial, but for this era, his financial knowledge can be regarded as the level of a great master, at least Xiang Zhuang has learned about the financial turmoil of 97 years from the Internet, and generally knows the operation methods of Wall Street financial predators to loot several major emerging economies in Asia.

The method is to first buy a large number of currencies of various countries, speculate on the exchange rate, wait for the exchange rate to rise to a certain height, and then release a large number of currencies bought in advance, earn the price difference, wait until the Asian countries exhaust their foreign exchange reserves, the exchange rate collapses, and then scoop out a very small amount of dollars to enter the market to buy the bottom and collect the corpse, so as to easily control all kinds of assets in Asian countries.

Of course, there is no finance at all in this era, but the market must have, and since Qin Shi Huang unified the currency system, the Chinese countries have a unified currency, that is, the upper currency, the lower currency, the five baht money, with a unified currency, Xiang Zhuang from the economy to loot the crazy idea of Guanzhong also has the basis for realization. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )