The matter in the south was left to Liu Kuo.

As for whether Liu Jian will cooperate with the ministers of the DPRK and the central government and the southern gentry to do things, such as hoeing and rebelling......

Uh, he's a smart guy.

A really smart person, with his IQ, would not do such a thing.

So far, in fact, anyone can see the wealth and strength of the Great Song Dynasty, it was originally quite rich, at least compared to the surrounding countries, the Great Song Dynasty is indeed the richest, as for the people who are not full of food and clothing, this kind of thing, is not the world like this now?

Could it be that those in Europe who eat sawdust lumps, carrion, and boiled beans are well-fed?

In this era, there is not enough food and clothing, and the herdsmen on the grassland have only a dozen sheep, a few cows, one or two horses, a disease and death, milking some milk on weekdays, using livestock to trade grain and salt, and then in the wind and snow of dozens of degrees below zero, the family is crammed into a tent that leaks everywhere to survive, and the most important food source is to shoot all kinds of rodents......

So it's easy to get the plague.

In the deserts of the Middle East, dates and goat's milk are staple foods.

A glass of goat's milk and two dates are the food that most of them barely guarantee every day.

Anyway, the date is not as big as a thumb!

Will the coastal Wa kingdom be able to eat enough?

If they can eat enough, they won't grow an average of one meter four, to put it bluntly, they are still hungry enough to become genes, white rice is a legendary food, and civilians are all kinds of grains, and then at most they are gnawing roots and pickling big roots......

Well, it's actually pickled radish.

Even on the distant American continent, the Indians were also half-starved and half-fed, but they were rich, such as bison everywhere on the North American continent, but the Indians who were still in the Stone Age were able to hunt a few bison.

As for the corn growers in South America......

In other words, their corn yield is not as high as the wheat of the Great Song Dynasty, the yield of corn per mu exceeds that of wheat, that is in the nineteenth century, the yield of corn per mu in many places during the Republic of China is still dozens of catties, the corn cob that the Europeans first brought back from South America is really a cob, and then the top is like those corn fields that are almost extinct in modern times, a poor corn cob, with corn particles that can be seen at a glance, and a stone civilization can still eat enough that it is really too mysterious.

In this worse world, no matter how much you compare to the Great Song Dynasty, you are the richest, and you are also the best life for the common people.

And now it's even better!

In the past, it was only rich, but it was far from the word strong.

Beaten by Liao, beaten by Western Xia, and beaten to Nanning, but now the Great Song Dynasty is the strongest, and has begun to have the qualifications to beat whoever they want, even if the Jurchens go south this time, in fact, it is only the three Xuanfu envoys of the Great Song Dynasty who stop them. Up to now, neither the Hebei nor Shaanxi armies have participated in the war, and only the three Xuanfu Divisions of Yanshan Road, Xuanda Road and Hedong Road have participated in the war, and even the Yanshan Road Xuanfu envoy himself has not gone north to participate in the war.

But even so, it has blocked the Jurchens from the outside of the fortress, and the latter has not even set foot on the land of the Great Song Dynasty so far.

Their battlefields were Liao Xi and Ming Kingdom.

It was the Mengwu who really stepped into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but they were only in Xuanda, and they could make peace, Yang Zongmin and Guo Qizhong had entered a stalemate.

So isn't this kind of Great Song pursued by these young Zhuang generals?

Wang Yue is indeed a Cao Cao or Gao Huan.

But it is also true that he is really moving towards prosperity with the Great Song Dynasty, he has indeed harmed the interests of many people, but he has brought benefits to the vast majority of people, he is indeed coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but the Son of Heaven is honest and does not dare to complain, so why should others worry about the Zhao family?

Of course, none of this is the most important thing.

The most important thing is that Liu Xi knows better than anyone that no one in this world can beat Wang Yue!

Since you can't beat it, isn't it good to honestly follow the wealth and glory?

"I'm a person who treats my brother in one sentence, righteousness!"

Wang Yue said.

A group of generals in front of him touted one after another.

Here are all the future famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty, Liu Kuang, Yao Youzhong, Wang De.

He actually followed Wang Yue, and after the fight against the Western Xia and the old age of the Seed Master Dao brothers, he also withdrew from the Western Army, and he was just a deputy general. Although he has been promoted quickly over the years, he is different from Han Shizhong and Wu Jue, his official rank is much higher than him, and he is not a person like Zhang Jun, so his official position is naturally not too high.

Li Shifu, he has changed his name, Zhao Huan gave him the name Li Xianzhong, and he is currently following Han Shizhong.

Wu Xuan, Wu Jue, a smart man, stepped on two boats, and while following Chong Wei to be a warlord on Jingyuan Road, he sent his younger brother to Wang Yue to show his loyalty.

Guo Hao, he came to show his loyalty on behalf of his father.

Of course, the main reason is that his father had no friendship with Wang Yue before.

Their father and son had recently fought with the Xin family in a secret fight, trying to completely control Qin Fenglu.

Originally, his father was only the prefect of Fengxiang and Qin Fenglu, and Guo Hao was the governor of Fengzhou, and the two of them controlled the most important trade route between Sichuan and Guanzhong, and they made a lot of money every year by collecting taxes in the immortal Guanguang, and they raised 10,000 well-equipped troops under their command. And Qin Fenglu's subordinates are only 10,000, the latter mainly controls Qinzhou, but behind him is the 30,000 elites of Xihe Road, as well as Xin Xingzong, the envoy of Longyou, and the Guo family relies more on Yao Gu's support.

But it didn't work.

After all, Wang Yue is the real boss.

There is also Li Xiaozhong, he didn't change his name, after all, Li Shifu gave the name to show loyalty in recognition of their family's contribution to the country, but what does it mean to give Li Xiaozhong the name Li Yanxian? If it weren't for the name Li Yanxian, it would be better to let him continue to be called Li Xiaozhong.

"I know it's not easy for you in the northwest, where the land is barren, and you can't earn a few a year, especially in northern Shaanxi, Longshang, these places, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, even the mountains are washed away by mud when it rains, and the wind and sand are dry when it doesn't rain, and it is really not easy for brothers to defend the border for the country in these places."

Wang Yue continued.

These guys quickly agreed, and at the same time expressed their loyalty.

"So, I'm going to give you a way to make money, what does Longyou rely on, isn't it trade to the Western Regions? It has been more than a thousand years since the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions, and everything in Longyou has relied on this trade route? But now that Xixia has taken control of Hexi and cut off the fattest piece, we only have to drink soup, which is definitely not possible.

We've got to get that line back.

But it's not worth it to work hard with Western Xia for this.

After all, the imperial court has approved their apologies, and King Xia is also our minister of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's really not appropriate to fight, but we can bypass them, we can go directly from Qinghai instead of their Hexi, but from Qinghai we still have to go through Shazhou, which they control, so we still can't bypass them. Fortunately, I flipped through the previous edicts with the Xia Kingdom, and found that we had never acknowledged their occupation of these areas that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Righteous Army. Then this is easy to do, let's send an army to Shazhou to find the descendants of the Cao family to rebuild the Guiyi Army, even if the descendants of the Cao family are gone, the descendants of the Zhang family can do it, in short, whether it is the Zhang family or the Cao family.

But then there was another problem.

It is this expedition to find the descendants of the Guiyi Army that will inevitably cost a lot of money, who should pay for the money, whether it is the imperial court or the people of Shaanxi.

I don't think it's reasonable.

After all, it was the merchants, not the court, who benefited in the end.

Therefore, my proposal is to form a joint-stock company, that is, whoever wants to take money will take money to buy the shares of this company, and this company is authorized by the imperial court to have a monopoly on trade in the Western Regions, which means that this company can only go to trade in the Western Regions. The trading markets are located in Shazhou and Guazhou, which means that only this company has the right to transport goods from Xining to the Guiyi Army, and if it is willing to traffic to the Western Regions, it is also possible to have a monopoly on trade.

The money earned each year is left over from paying taxes, and then distributed to those who hold shares according to the number of shares in hand.

Then the company paid for the expedition to the west. ”

Wang Yue said.

A group of people are still confused, this thing is a bit beyond their comprehension.

"What does the king mean is that each of us pays money to buy stocks and form a firm together, and this firm pays money to support the Western Expedition, and after it succeeds, this firm specializes in trade in the Western Regions, and the money earned will be distributed to us? But forgive the little presumptuousness, isn't this Western Regions trade originally what we are doing? ”

Wu said.

Obviously, he is the best brain.

Others chimed in.

Wu Lin is right, at present, the trade in the Western Regions was originally controlled by the major warlords, but there was no joint business, but each family had caravans, but it was mainly through the Western Xia.

Wang Yue smiled......

"Did I tell you to pay for stocks?"

He said.

Wu Lan and the others looked confused.

"There is a kind of stock called dry shares, I took the lead in setting up this company, issuing five million shares, what is it to give you a few hundred thousand shares? Not to mention, first take out 2 million to divide among the brothers, and then take out the remaining 3 million to raise shares, do you need to pay for it? Not at all! But when the dividends are divided, they are really divided! ”

Wang Yue said.

"But what if three million isn't enough?"

Wu said.

"A share is always on sale, but if the people who buy it can't squeeze in, can't the price of this stock go up? Three million shares did raise less than five million shares at the original price, but isn't it enough to raise the price to two? ”

Wang Yue said.

"But what if not so many people buy it?"

Li Xianzhong said straightforwardly.

Guo Hao suddenly laughed.

"Brother Li, isn't such a good thing a squeeze?

Who doesn't know that this trade in the Western Regions is the same as the gold and silver mountains that are fished one by one, and it is inevitable that this business will make a lot of money, maybe it will earn back the stock money in a year or two, not to mention that this can still be passed on to future generations, since this is not to mention spending two times, even if it costs twenty times, it will also be bought.

Let's go back and talk to the king, so that those rich people in Chang'an, Luoyang, and Hezhong will know the news. ”

He said.

Wang Yue looked at him very meaningfully, he didn't expect that there was really cunning here.