After a large number of eastward returnees entered the territory of Shangjun. The speed of travel began to increase noticeably. This is because from the beginning of Diaoyin in Shangnu, there is a wide, smooth and solid stucco road leading north to Gaonu, and then from Gaonu to the northeast to Lishi Castle in Xihe County.

Since the end of the war to defend the state, Zhao Xing has asked the counties to seize the time to build interconnected official roads to ensure that the speed of local development and construction will not be affected because of the difficulty of roads. Of course, there is also the hidden benefit of building strong and durable roads between counties, that is, the speed of military mobilization will also be accelerated.

After changing into a carriage in Lishicheng, Zhao Xing could sit in the car and review the official documents reported from various places, or let Guo Jia, Pang Tong and others travel in the same car to discuss some matters related to people's livelihood.

In the car, Guo Jia asked Zhao Xing: "Will there be a war next year?"

Zhao Xing replied: "There is no consideration for the time being, maybe the troops will be used in Liaodong, everything depends on the recovery of Youzhou." ”

Pang Tong asked more explicitly: "When will you go south?"

Zhao Xing replied: "After taking Jizhou, I will go south." ”

Pang Tong asked again: "When will you take Jizhou?"

Zhao Xing smiled, tilted his head and pondered for a moment, and then replied: "When Yuan Shao is not pleasing to the eye one day, I will take Jizhou!"

Guo Jia didn't ask any more questions, and said to himself: "Alas, it's the New Year again, and I don't know if the long river Daqu produced by the party this year is enough to drink......

Hearing Guo Jia's reminder, Zhao Xing's originally relaxed expression suddenly froze, and I saw that the corners of his mouth were still twitching. Why did Zhao Xing have such a painful expression? Because there are now more than 6 million people in the three prefectures of Youji and Liang, if we still follow the previous practice and distribute three jars of Changhe Daqu per person by the end of the year, Crouching Tiger Winery will have to give away nearly 20 million jars of liquor for nothing, which is a huge expense. Zhao Xing really can't afford to send it now!

With a somewhat heavy heart, Zhao Xing returned to Crouching Tiger City depressedly, and after meeting his mother and family, he locked himself in the study and began to meditate and think about it. It's already the middle of winter, and if there are any benefits, it's time to distribute them to the people. But the problem is that in order to support the construction of Liangguo and Youzhou, the savings of the Taifu Mansion and the Zhao family's inner treasury have basically been emptied.

Although there will be a lot of business coming to the door in the coming year, and a lot of wealth can be made from the states, which is also an agreement reached by the "round table" a long time ago, but after all, we will not see real money until after the New Year. A few years ago, if Zhao Xing couldn't distribute benefits to the people, although it would not lead to chaos in the world, it would definitely make many poor people who were looking forward to him lose their trust in him.

Just when Zhao Xing was frowning and worried, Liu Jili and Qin Yilu came to visit Zhao Xing together. At first, Zhao Xing thought that the two of them were complaining to him, so he didn't give the two of them a good face, and waited for the two to ask him for money with a wooden face. As a result, the two of them actually came to ask Zhao Xing how to distribute a big and terrifying fortune!

Liu Jili spoke first: "According to the instructions of the secret letter of the lord when he was in Liangzhou, I and the treasurer of Qin and the principals of the peasants, soldiers, merchants, and gold banks of various counties got together for a three-day meeting, and then set the goal of issuing five million taels of silver treasury bonds in the first phase, but in less than ten days after the issuance, the treasury bonds in various places were snapped up by the people!" Seeing that many people began to spend high prices to buy second-hand treasury bonds from others, we did not have time to ask for instructions, so we stepped up the issuance of the second phase of treasury bonds worth 10 million taels of silver. ”

It may be that he is a little tired from saying so many words in one breath, Liu Jili picked up the tea bowl and poured it vigorously, and motioned to Qin Yilu to continue while pouring water.

Qin Yilu took Liu Jili's words and continued: "After the issuance of the two treasury bonds ended, at that time, the lord, you were busy practicing the blue wolf army in Jincheng, so we conducted a survey on the people of the Jin Kingdom according to the ** investigation method you taught, and the result was that seventy percent of the people said that the issuance of treasury bonds was too small and should continue to be issued. Maybe he felt that he and Liu Jili were too bold, speaking of this, Qin Yilu paused, looked at Zhao Xing's face, and found that Zhao Xing was not angry, so he continued to speak.

So, we were ruthless, and then issued the third issue of 10 million taels of silver bonds, and the day before yesterday, all the gold banks reported that they had been sold out. Today, we are here to ask you for instructions, see if we want to send the fourth issue again?" Qin Yilu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said ruthlessly.

When Zhao Xing heard this, he had already set off a monstrous giant in his heart. The scrap of paper that symbolized 25 million taels of silver, with just a few words written on it and stamped with his Zhao Xing's big seal, was exchanged for a mountain of gold and silver wealth? It turned out that his Zhao Xing's name was so valuable!

Zhao Xingqiang resisted the urge to jump up, looked at Qin Yilu and Liu Jili and said, "In other words, now we have all kinds of physical wealth worth two and a half million taels of silver in our hands?"

Liu Jili nodded and replied: "On the surface, this is the case, but not all of these riches belong to the Taifu Mansion and the Zhao Mansion. Because when the Agricultural, Soldier, Commercial and Financial Bank opened, although we were the major shareholders of the bank, accounting for 50% of the dry shares, but all the armies of the Protector Army, the county treasury, the Taihang Academy, and some large factories were all shared, so the wealth that belongs to you should be 11,250,000 taels......"

"Okay! You have done a good job in the task of issuing treasury bonds! I will give you meritorious service and commendation in return, and now there is a very important matter that you still need to work on. Zhao Xing walked around the room, kept rubbing his hands, and said very excitedly.

Qin Yilu also became excited, and asked Zhao Xing: "Are you going to issue the fourth phase of treasury bonds? How much will be issued this time? 20 million taels?"

Zhao Xing, who was originally energetic, was almost stumbled by Qin Yilu's question, and hurriedly stopped Qin Yilu's words. Zhao Xing said with a serious face: "The issuance of treasury bonds to this amount is sufficient, and any further over-issuance will concentrate too much wealth in the hands of the people in our hands, which is not conducive to the circulation of non-governmental commerce! The fourth phase of treasury bonds will have to wait until at least half a year later, and the two of you must ask me for instructions on the issuance of treasury bonds in the future." ”

The two of them hurriedly nodded yes, since Zhao Xing said that he would not send it, they would not dare to make any more assertions.

"You should now hurry up and contact the Crouching Tiger Printing House to prepare to print shopping coupons worth 10 million taels of silver. The face value of the shopping coupons is uniformly set at one or two, and the four anti-counterfeiting measures of flower code, simplified code, traditional character code and seal must be completed before November 29!" Zhao Xing clearly issued an order.

The flower code in Zhao Xing's mouth refers to the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9, the abbreviated code refers to the writing from 〇 to nine, and the traditional character code of course refers to the number from one to nine. This is also the anti-counterfeiting means that Zhao Xing handed over to Liu Jili and Qin Yilu and others when the gold bank opened.

"Pang Tong, I order you to immediately draft an announcement, the general content of which is to celebrate this year's Spring Festival, the Taifu Mansion will issue welfare shopping coupons worth 10 million taels of silver to the people of the Jin Kingdom. This shopping coupon cannot be used as a silver ticket, but as long as you buy more than ten taels of items before the Spring Festival next year, you can use one tael of shopping coupons to sell one tael of silver at a low price for every ten taels used. This shopping coupon is calculated according to the head of the people of the Jin Kingdom, two tickets will be issued to each person, and one more will be issued if someone in the family is in the army. Zhao Xing asked Dian Wei to call Pang Tong in, and then gave new instructions.

Qin Yilu, whose brain was spinning relatively quickly, looked at Zhao Xing and said with some surprise: "Lord, do you want to return the more than 10 million taels of silver to the people?"

Zhao Xing nodded and said, "You can say that, but not directly to them." If they want it, they'll have to come up with more money......"

Qin Yilu said again: "My lord, can you think that this is a replacement for the practice of distributing the Great Song of the Long River at the beginning, and further stimulate domestic demand?"

Zhao Xing finally laughed out loud: "Haha, Lao Qin, you have finally figured it out this time! I just want to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to spend money, so that the wealth hidden in the people's homes can operate, instead of burying it in the cellar and becoming moldy and rotten!"

Liu Jili asked Zhao Xing again: "What about the remaining more than 10 million taels of silver?"

Zhao Xing did not hesitate this time, and said lightly: "Five million taels of it will be used as the loan principal, and it will be loaned to businessmen who are in urgent need of living money to do business. All the rest will be collected into the government treasury and used as funds for the construction of water conservancy and roads in Youzhou and Liangguo next year. ”

Pang Tong, who had never intervened, couldn't help it this time, and asked Zhao Xing: "As far as the officials know, the more than 20 million taels of silver this time were borrowed from the common people in the name of Lord Taifu, and they were spent so lavishly, when the people took the bonds to exchange the silver three years later, what should we do?"

At this moment, even Qin Yilu and Liu Jili laughed. Liu Jili smiled and explained to Pang Tong: "Shiyuan doesn't need to worry about this matter, I dare to guarantee that as long as the people everywhere spend all the 10 million taels of shopping coupons issued by the lord within next year, then the taxes received by the local government treasury will definitely exceed 20 million taels." If we issue treasury bonds next year and shopping coupons at the end of the year, when three years have passed, we will be able to use more than the 25 million taels that were issued at the beginning!"

Pang Tong still asked a little puzzled: "According to this algorithm, after three years, the income on the books of the Jin State Financial Bank is only afraid to exceed 10,000, but where does this extra wealth come from?"

Zhao Xing stopped laughing, and said to Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, what you said just now is not right. What we are doing now is to find a way to mobilize the wealth that the common people cannot use, and let this wealth become the starting capital for the people in Youzhou, Liangguo, and Jin to create wealth, which is like using a wooden stick to pry a big stone. The gold and silver we have invested are still the same gold and silver, and they have not increased in quantity, but what has really increased is the new wealth created by millions of people after their hard work!"

"When the lord said this, he finally understood, this political economy is really a university question that benefits the country and the people!" Pang Tong said convincingly.

"If it is used well for the benefit of the country and the people, if it is used by the elite to fool the people, it will be a disaster for the country and the people......" Zhao Xing said softly to himself in his heart.