Great Zhou, Chang'an.

Rows and tiles, pavilions and pavilions, row upon row.

The officials rode their horses and hugged each other; The little girl sat in a sedan chair and lifted the corner of the curtain curiously; The merchant carrying the flat burden walked towards the market.

I saw an official with a knife walking into the street, in front of a shelf, pasted a yellow list, and the surrounding people watched one after another.

"Have you posted the emperor's list?"

"What did the emperor say?"

"Is there anyone who can read, read it to someone?"

Those who are literate began to read, and it is easy to say, that is, the Son of Heaven announced that he had inherited the mandate of heaven, defeated Hu Lu, and Weijia Hai was cloudy, and it was almost to the sky when the Great Zhou was blown.

But when the Son of Heaven was happy, he thought about it carefully, and found that he had been on the throne for a long time, and he had never been happy with the people, so he decided to introduce a policy to benefit the people, that is, to issue a thing called [national wealth], starting to buy one or two pieces of silver, each person is limited to one thousand taels, with an annual interest rate of five cents, and after a year, I can take it back with interest.

For a limited period of one month, you can go to the official yamen to buy [national wealth], which is outdated, and the limited principal is 15 million taels.

Good guys, the crowd fryed:

"Is there such a good thing?"

"Can you really give us these five cents of interest?"

"Hey, don't worry, there's more down there."

The scholar read again:

In addition to the national wealth, the Son of Heaven is also willing to give great dedication today, and the first 100 people who buy [national wealth] to reach ten taels will be rewarded with ten taels immediately!

When I read this, the crowd ran away in an uproar.

Hurry up and go to the official yamen to buy [national wealth]! If it's late, it's gone!

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Great Zhou, Zhongshu Province.

"Your Majesty is really a god!"

Before Xiao Fu entered the gate of Zhongshu Province, he had already shouted excitedly and loudly:

"I've never seen anything like this in my life!"

"Lord Shangshu is in a good mood today."

Cai Yafu greeted him with a smile from Zhongshu Province.

"Prime Minister Cai, haven't you seen it, I thought that I would issue treasury bonds in the government office today, and I was afraid that I would also be given a cold reception, but I didn't expect that the people of Chang'an, buying one more than the other, this morning alone, has already raised 500,000 taels, if it weren't for the upper limit of 1,000 taels set by His Majesty, the silver taels raised could be more!"

Xiao Fu was quite emotional and said:

"It's just a word difference, but it has such a great effect, Your Majesty's intelligence, I can't match it."

"Since ancient times, scarcity is precious, Your Majesty's wisdom, I have long seen it, the matter of raising national debts, presumably it will be completed soon, but there is another matter, I want to talk to you."

Cai Cheng beckoned to Xiao Fu, who quickly followed, and after the two walked into the house, Prime Minister Cai Cheng said:

"I just came from Xiliang, and a letter came."

Xiao Fu was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"Letter? It can't be the king of Xiliang, right? Does he know that Yang Qi is dead? ”

Prime Minister Cai shook his head and said:

"Not so fast, but at most tomorrow, it should be able to know, this Xiliang King sent a letter, it was to claim his crimes, King Qin was unfavorable, did not block the detour of Hu Lu, and the reason why Hu Lu was able to go around Liangzhou is that there are people under his command who collaborate with the enemy, he has killed the person who collaborated with the enemy, and the head was sent to Chang'an, in order to show his loyalty, he is willing to punish him for one year."

"Hey, he's retreating as advancing, and he wants His Majesty to have no reason to cut his domain."

"Heh, he thought it was good, but he never expected that His Majesty would personally tour the west, even if he found thousands of reasons, when the army pressed the border and the Son of Heaven arrived, he could only be killed."

Prime Minister Cai laughed, Xiao Fu thought of something and asked:

"By the way, what did Your Majesty say?"

"Your Majesty didn't say anything, just said that he knew, obviously he was confident."

"Well, I'm confident."

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Wu Qiong is thinking a little too much now.

He got the letter sent by King Xiliang, and King Xiliang wrote in the letter with tears in his eyes and swore an oath.

It's like Hu Lu's invasion, which has nothing to do with his half a dime, they are all his bastard subordinates, greedy for wealth and collusion with Hu Lu, but he has already killed his subordinates, and the heads have been sent to Chang'an.

Wu Qiong didn't go to see the head, and she didn't have that interest, but this letter from King Xiliang was very particular.

If you really want to say that the king of Xiliang colluded with Hu Lu, so far, in fact, except that Hu Lu easily passed Liangzhou and attacked Chang'an, it is really the slightest substantial evidence.

At this time, King Xiliang took retreat as advance, and directly cut off all his cronies' subordinates, and the relationship and responsibility were pushed cleanly.

Wu Qiong is a little worried, Wu Zhi personally commanded the army to the west, and when the time comes, there will be an armed conflict with the King of Xiliang, if the King of Xiliang does not even open the city gate, the imperial court will lose its strength in attacking the city, and it will not be able to attack for a long time, will there be other vassal kings, under the pretext of traitors on the side of the king, framing the name of the king of Zhongliang Xiliang, and holding the banner of "Qingjun side" to rebel?

To put it bluntly, Wu Zhi chose to go on the expedition at this time, because he took advantage of the power of victory, and his morale and popular support were available, and he planned to solve the largest vassal power of King Xiliang in one go.

But after all, there are still too many uncertainties, especially now that King Xiliang has taken action.

Thinking about it now, he left his second son Yang Qi with 3,000 people, and he was known as King Qin, making it clear that this son just didn't want it, and sent it to your emperor to kill to win the sympathy of other vassal kings.

You see, my son King Qin was killed by the emperor, of course it is not the emperor's fault, it is the fault of those traitorous ministers around the emperor!

As long as he wants to rebel, he can really find 11 million reasons to raise troops, even if he shouts "The Son of Heaven is not a man, there is no virtue, we will do the right thing for heaven!" It is estimated that it can barely be said.

The more Wu Qiong thought about it, the more worried she became, the morale of the people was available, but what if the king of Xiliang put a knife on the necks of the people of Xiliang and forced them to rebel together?

Just when Wu Qiong was worried, the female official Shangguan walked in and said softly:

"Your Majesty, the military department is ready, and the army can start tomorrow."

"I see."

Wu Qiong waved her hand.

The arrow is already on the string, and it has to be sent, not to mention, it is indeed as Wu Zhi and the generals of the DPRK said, the current time is really the most suitable time to deal with the King of Xiliang.

If you feel that the reason is not enough at the moment, and the strength is not enough, the further it drags on, the power of the vassal king will only get stronger and stronger.

Besides, everyone with a discerning eye is watching it, if you don't deal with King Xiliang, how can the face of the court remain?

Wu Qiong decided not to think about it anymore, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, take one step at a time, he is not a smart person, but in the court, there are always smart people.

"By the way, the issuance of treasury bonds, ah no, how is the national treasury sold?"

"The household department is still counting, but I heard that hundreds of thousands of taels were bought by the people in the morning."

The female officer said happily:

"Officials, they all praise Your Majesty for your ingenuity."

Wu Qiong raised her head slightly, and a smile appeared on her face involuntarily.

"A little subtotal, a little subtotal."

After Wu Qiong finished smiling triumphantly, another palace maid walked over quickly and said to Wu Qiong:

"Your Majesty, the county lord of Luoqing has already arrived, and he is waiting in the side hall."

Wu Qiong nodded, this Luoqing County Lord was naturally called by Wu Qiong.

And the reason why she was called was mainly to grasp the problem and plug the loophole.

The day before yesterday, Wu Qiong proposed the method of trying out economic reform in Chang'an City, and the main strategy is to improve the treatment of businessmen, let go of the shackles on businessmen, and the most important thing is to cancel tariffs!

The tariff seemed to be receiving money from the merchants, but it greatly suppressed the enthusiasm of the merchants, and they could have collected tens of thousands of taels of commercial taxes, but as a result, they could only collect a few hundred taels of dead tariffs.

Those big businessmen who have mastered the official channels and have a background, relying on the umbrella to be full of oil, the tariff of the head is nothing to them.

But small businessmen, direct tariffs may beat them to death with a stick. The cost is too high and no one is in business.

As a result, commodities became less and less circulated, and merchants had to be attached to officials, and the bureaucrats and gentry told the central court while holding the merchants and sucking their blood: "The root of the world is in the peasants, and the court will only collect taxes from the peasants." ”

Maybe the Great Zhou is not very obvious, but looking at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is easy to see.

The reason why the Shi class represented by the Donglin Party, after overthrowing the 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian, canceled the commercial tax and sea tax, restored the tariff, suppressed the merchants in the name, and also benefited the people, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment and cultivate well, and the country would inevitably be rich and the people would be strong.

actually swallowed all the money that should have been given to the court into his fat belly.

Forty years ago, the three major expeditions of Wanli could directly become the emperor drinking thin rice porridge.

You just scraped three layers of skin on the top of the farmer's head, and you really don't have much money.

The situation is the same in the Great Zhou now, although the situation is not serious, and the officials may not want to embezzle themselves and control the big businessmen.

They also want to let the people farm with peace of mind, and not to blow a wind of bad habits of leisure and hard work. Strictly speaking, they are not wrong, after all, capital infinitely magnifies the evil of human nature.

But as a result, without reform and repression of businessmen on the condition of the existing level of productivity, the country will only become poorer and poorer.

If you have studied history, you know that only the Song Dynasty, even if it is beaten and shouts dad everywhere, and pays tribute every year, it is getting richer and richer every year, and the economic curves of other dynasties are ups and downs, reform, and then ups and downs, and then there is a generation.

Because the Song Dynasty has always encouraged business, maritime trade.

After Wu Qiong read Wu Zhi's message, he also knew that in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the old forces were full of resistance, even if it was the emperor, it was impossible to withstand such huge pressure and forcibly promote the reform, without the support of his subordinates, the reform implemented could only be yin and yang, and maybe it would not be able to take advantage of public opinion.

There are a few cases of being rich and unkind, people competing for business, and abandoning farmland, I am afraid that Wu Zhi will be scolded into the history books.

Isn't that what happened to Wang Mang?

In the end, the Son of Crossing still can't beat the native magician.

[It seems that this reform is indeed too radical, and it is useless to draw a circle for the time being.] 】

Wu Qiong sighed in his heart, but he did not give up the way to make a fortune in business, so he called the lord of Luoqing.

For no other reason, he wanted to let the county lord of Luoqing be his spokesperson - to open a store.

Since the courtiers did not agree to let the people do business freely, it was better to do business themselves and be the biggest merchant themselves.

When the prestige of the emperor is high enough and the mandate of heaven is high enough, and then this reform is carried out, I believe that there will be much less opposition to it.

As for what business makes money, just flip houses, make money is to make money, and harm the people! Unpopular with the people!

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, only three are left, the car has not been sold, there are only two left, and the answer is about to come out - open a supermarket.

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