Empress Dowager Shulu said to Yelu Deguang: "Is it okay to let the Han people be the emperor of the Hu people?" ”

Jerod replied, "No! ”

The Queen Mother said: "Then why do you want to be the emperor of the Han people?" ”

Jerod replied, "The one surnamed Shi has betrayed their kindness and cannot tolerate it. ”

The Queen Mother said: "Although you have obtained the Han land now, you cannot stay; If something goes wrong, it's too late to regret it! Then she said to her subordinates, "Han'er has never had a good night's sleep!" Since ancient times, I have only heard of Han Lai and Fan, but I have not heard of Fan and Han. If Han'er can change his mind, why should we be stingy to reconcile with him! ”

At this time, Shi Chonggui was also frightened, he no longer had the pride to talk to the Khitan that day, after Sang Weihan's repeated persuasion, Shi Chonggui finally sent a messenger to invite Yu Khitan to alleviate the country's woes, Shi Chonggui with the help of the Kaifeng military general Zhang Hui to serve the official, let him go to the Khitan with the title of minister, and thanked him in humble language.

The Khitan lord Yelu Deguang replied: "Let Jing Yanguang and Sang Weihan come in person, and still cede Zhenzhou and Dingzhou to our country, and you can make peace." ”

The Jin court thought that the Khitan's speech was outrageous, saying that the Khitan had no intention of reconciliation, so it stopped sending envoys further.

At this time, the Jin Kingdom had already begun to fall apart.

Dewey, who has been guarding Hengzhou for a long time, has a greedy and cruel temperament, and he relies on being a royal relative and often does not abide by the law. In the name of border fortification, they often looted the money and cloth of officials and ordinary people to enrich their personal pockets.

The rich have precious things or excellent maidens and good horses, and they have plundered them; Or kill a person on false charges and confiscate his property.

But he cowered and cowardly enough. Whenever dozens of Khitan cavalry entered, Dewey had already closed the city gate and ascended to the high platform. Or when a few enemy cavalry drove the captured thousands of Central Plains people past the city, Dewey could only watch with his eyes wide open and his neck stretched. There is no meaning to obstruct robbery and seizure.

Therefore, the Khitans were unscrupulous, and the cities under Dewey's jurisdiction were often slaughtered by captives, and Dewey did not send a single soldier to the rescue.

Dewey saw that the subordinates under his jurisdiction were in tatters and crumbling, and that they were resented by everyone and feared the strength of the Khitan, and finally he couldn't stand still.

Thereupon. Continuously requested to enter the court as an official, but Shi Chonggui did not agree.

Dewey couldn't wait, didn't wait for the report, and suddenly put down the military town and entered the court, and the court was very frightened when he heard about it.

Sang Weihan said to Shi Chonggui: "Dewey stubbornly disobeyed the orders of the imperial court and left the border town without authorization. In ordinary times, he often relied on himself to be the old minister of the lord and tolerated his greed, and when the frontier battlefield was eventful, he never expressed the expression of defending the territory against the enemy; He should be deposed at this time. lest there be trouble in the future. ”

Shi Chonggui was very unhappy when he heard this. Sang Weihan wrote again: "Your Majesty can't bear to abolish him, and you should give him a small town near Beijing, and don't appoint him to govern the big town of Xiongfan." ”

Shi Chonggui replied: "Dewey is my closest relative, and he must not have two hearts; It's just that the eldest princess of Song is eager to meet him. Don't doubt him, sir! ”

From then on, Sang Weihan did not dare to talk about state affairs anymore, let alone write about Dewey, and resigned from his position because of his foot illness.

Dewey then made it to the girder.

Subsequently. Dewey presented a total of 4,000 infantry and cavalry and armor to the Jin court, and the next day. He also offered 100,000 husks of millet and 200,000 bunches of grass. It is said that these things are within the jurisdiction of the town guard. That is to say, what is offered is just an empty word.

Shi Chonggui believed it, and subordinated the cavalry he sacrificed to the Husheng Army, and the infantry to the Protector Army, and Dewey requested that these soldiers and horses be his own army, and their food and straw supplies were borne by the imperial court. Dewey asked the eldest princess of the Song Kingdom to express to the emperor that he should be appointed as the envoy of the Tianxiong Festival, and Shi Chonggui agreed without thinking about it.

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Baili Wuji naturally didn't know that Sun Shixu had sacrificed his face for the country.

He had successfully completed the shooting training of Bailikang and the 3,000 musketeers, and he was only waiting for the armory to complete the production of muskets, and he could equip them with muskets.

After the shooting training was completed, Baili Wuji conducted special training for the soldiers to deal with cavalry, that is, to set up fences and thistles before shooting, and then line up behind them to carry out three-stage shooting.

After the training was completed, Baili Wuji handed over the command of the musket capital to Bailikang and ordered him to continue the regular training of the soldiers.

But he invested in another money scheme.

Since the Chu State exchanged a large amount of gold for silver last year, the silver on the market in the Central Plains countries has been rapidly lost. As commerce began to flourish and the volume of transactions continued to increase, the amount of silver needed increased, and the demand for silver increased.

Even if the state of Chu no longer exchanges gold and silver this year, the ratio of gold to silver has been falling, and now the exchange of gold for silver has fallen to one to six.

This is quite close to the exchange rate of Fuso at the beginning.

Baili Wuji ordered to take 10,000 taels of silver from the inventory and quickly put it into the money houses in various parts of the Chu State, and opened it to merchants from all over the country for exchange.

A month later, the huge amount of silver instantly increased the gold-silver exchange ratio to one to ten, and stabilized at the position of one to nine.

And in this gold and silver exchange storm, the treasury of Chu once again made a profit of nearly three million taels of gold.

This made Xu Shiming, Sun Guangxian and others admire Baili Wuji's ability to make money more and more.

In the past two years, nearly 10 million taels of gold and a huge amount of copper have been earned from Fuso. Now that he has changed hands like this, he has earned millions of taels of gold, which in the eyes of everyone, Baili Wuji is like a god of wealth, and in terms of the position of the king of Chu, he is more like a businessman.

It's the end of the year in the blink of an eye.

Xu Shiming reported on the income of Chu this year.

The total annual income of the state of Chu this year has exceeded 30 million taels of silver. This is an increase of more than 30% over the previous year.

Of course, this does not include the windfall profits of Baili Wuji.

The main increase is still coming from commercial taxes, which are already on par with agricultural taxes.

Baili Wuji no longer wants to continue to reduce taxes, and such a tax rate is already the lowest among the countries in the Central Plains.

If it is lowered, although the government can stand it, it will have a huge impact on the rule.

As a good ruler, you must let the people be fed and clothed, and you must have a little money to spare, and you can drink a little wine at ordinary times, but you must not really let the people be fat.

People's desires are endless, when people solve the problem of food and clothing, they will want to get fame, fortune and dignity, and if they get fame, fortune and dignity, they want to stand higher, this is human nature.

When one person, hundreds, tens of millions of people have this kind of thinking, then the country will definitely fall apart, or at least civil strife. This is the so-called principle of prosperity and decline. (To be continued......)