The spring of the twelfth year of Jingwu came a little late, and a large number of cattle and sheep on the steppe died from the long and severe cold.

At Li Dan's suggestion, Pan Chang asked the people of Seyan and Luyan to move closer to the side wall after clearing the field, and led his troops forward, forming a three-sided encirclement with the assistance of the two troops, forcing the demoralized and panicked Kers to retreat continuously.

Before winter came, he also retreated across the Tu River, and he established a winter camp on the north bank and reduced his forces.

The prince of Seyan, Mudan and the general of the Luyan department, were close together, and each led 5,000 cavalry to form two mobile regiments to assist the officers and troops in constantly harassing the perimeter of the major camps of the Kerr.

In return, the imperial court granted limited relief to the two ministries and allowed them to buy grain and fodder in exchange.

Throughout the autumn and winter, the imperial court sent special ministers to organize merchants to provide 150,000 stone of wheat and 60,000 stone of beans and 30,000 stone of other grains for each of the two ministries.

In exchange for 300,000 stone wool and 100,000 stone camel hair, horsehair, and 40,000 sheepskins and cowhides.

These supplies were transferred across Liaoning, providing 8,000 jobs for the migrants.

The sweaters, woolen pants, woolen scarves, hats, gloves and other products produced in Liaodi not only equipped the army, but also sold high-end products to Hebei and Shunfu, becoming the favorite goods and winter necessities of the official eunuchs and wealthy families.

However, the Kelas who were trapped by the Tuhe River were miserable, and when they heard the news that Horin had been captured and that the enemy cavalry had appeared around Hulan, the people were disheartened.

Anger and disappointment made people lose their minds, and after the left senator Halemu and the chief military officer Bai Tu led their troops to surrender to Pan Chang, a rumor spread, and the death of the Yellow Sect Master was a sign of discarding and Khan.

On a snowy night, Yebi Khan was killed by his own guards. The rebel forces slaughtered his cronies, and the camp continued to attack each other throughout the night.

A few days later, Daluhua Chire Budieli served Yebi's nephew Sage as Khan 600 miles away, re-erected Daxu to recruit scattered people, and began to embark on the road back to his hometown north.

As a result of this upheaval, the Karkas have been reduced from the largest Egu tribe in the north to a third-rate tribe with a total population of no more than 100,000.

Hearing that the number of Kerians who surrendered and captured reached 170,000, Li Dan immediately realized that how to use and distribute it was a big problem.

He was sure that both Se Yan and Lu Yan were greedily glaring at this piece of fat, but he didn't want to hand over all the population to them, fattening this group of guys was actually not good for the imperial court.

After meeting with Halemu and Baitu in Liaoyang, Li Dan arranged relief for Kelgarao on the one hand, and went to the political envoy Yao Qing and Dusi Sun Douen on the other.

In the end, Sun Douen agreed to absorb 6,000 people into the army, and built four new military towns in Liaoyuan, Hanzhou, Tongliao, and Shuangliao;

Yao Qing also agreed to Li Dan's plan to enrich the forts of Fushun, Xiuyan, Jiuliancheng, Phoenix, Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Kuandian, and to establish the three cities of Donggou, Zhuanghe and Benxi.

In this way, in addition to Liaoxi Province, 1,000 Kerians are assigned to each city to work in the mail, transportation, and express transmission industries, and in southern and eastern Liaoning, and they are allowed to engage in pasture cultivation, fodder, and animal husbandry.

In addition to letting them engage in transportation and grazing, the military town also recruited some people to become night harvesters. As for Seyan and Lu Yan, Li Dan decided to give them a maximum of 10,000 people each.

In addition, Bai Tu is willing to join the army, it is estimated that the emperor will let him take some people to listen to the appointment of the Ministry of War, Halemu has a set of management of the people, Li Dan suggested that Yao Qing consider letting him stay in the political envoy and give him the title of senator to be responsible for minority affairs.

The most troublesome were the more than 2,000 people who were captured but were extremely reluctant, or who hated and resisted the Han Chinese. Li Dan decided to send them to work in coal mines and iron mines.

In April, the emperor summoned Pan Chang and Li Dan back to Beijing. On the way, he received an order, because the two were ordered to defeat the Kel people, the emperor specially allowed Jia Pan Chang to be the governor of the rear army, and Li Dan awarded the Tiren Pavilion Straight Bachelor and Zhongshu Zuo Lang Zheng

This is a twenty-two-year-old straight bachelor, that is, Li Dan is not far from the door of the cabinet!

After returning to Shangjing to explain his errand, Li Dan handed the palace gate that he had returned to Beijing, and then returned to Banyuan, and finally saw his relatives who had been absent for a long time.

However, he couldn't talk at this time, and after hurriedly freshening up and changing his clothes at A-Ying's, he glanced at the garden that he had planned but had never seen, and ran to the Four Seasons Curling Hall in front, where many people had gathered waiting to see him.

"Sit down, everybody." Li Dan greeted everyone one by one, first made an appointment with the date and time of meeting some people, and then smiled and pressed down with his hands, so that the staff who stayed behind sat down and talked.

He first listened to Zhu Qing's report on the situation in Jingli and Yugan, affirmed everyone's achievements, and then: "Before I came back, I received a report from the trial hero, and I found the situation in Changyi, what is going on?" Is there any evidence for this? ”

"Yes." Shen Jie replied. It turned out that Zhang Yi, who had been lurking, found that among the guests he wanted to receive in Changyi, there were Koreans and Japanese, as well as Yeerqiang and Tubo people from the west, and they were all concentrated in the nearest place.

Because he has been dormant for a long time, the other party has gradually relaxed his vigilance, and some words have come out, because the defeat of Kercas has disappointed the superiors, so they are readjusting the deployment.

And he also found that some Ergu people who didn't know which tribe were also mixed in the caravan heading south, and from the point of view that he was asked to take special care of it, nine times out of ten it was also related to Changyi.

"Aren't they giving up?" Li Dan frowned. "Anything else?" After a few breaths he asked.

"Hmm...... There is an official in Jiangxi who has a close relationship with him."

"Who?"

"Left to participate in politics, Tang Xuan."

"Is that him? No wonder! Li Dan raised his eyebrows and turned his face to Zhu Qing

"My uncle and Tang are the same scholars, he has troubled me several times, and Jiangxi has twice sued me by the imperial history, I was suspicious of this person at that time, and now it seems that it may be true!" ”

After instructing the judge: "Immediately let Sanqianzi try to find out about him and see how much nonsense there is behind it!" ”

Shen Jie hurriedly crossed his hand and agreed. Li Dan did not use the staff department, knowing that he did not want to use his power for personal gain, and the staff department was not used to investigate and punish rebels and invaders.

However, Shen Jie did feel that Li Dan had been in Liao for the past two years, and he was the de facto most influential military and political influence in Liao, and now he had exercised more decisive energy.

Du Jing opened his mouth and told him about the current operation of the trading company and the development of Zhili, and then: "The problem now is that there are more carriages and more crashes." Everyone has a bad road, but if the road is built, it will still crash! ”

"I see." Li Dan nodded: "This is not only about building roads, but also about having a set of rules." ”

"What rules?"

""Road Traffic Safety Regulations", it is necessary to make a set of systems to tell everyone what should be done, what circumstances are wrong, who should be responsible, and how responsible car owners should compensate."

Li Dan said to Zhu Qing: "I'll write something, you can familiarize yourself with it first, and then take it to Shunfu and let them implement it first." After that, I saw Wang Xu appear at the door: "Is there something?" He asked.

Brother Mao was sent back to the military academy by him at the beginning of the year to study, and Wang Xu is now the captain of his own soldiers to temporarily take over Ah Mao's duties. Seeing him ask, Wang Xu entered the door and pressed the saber with his left hand, saluted with his right hand, and replied:

"Your Excellency, someone from the palace has something to ask you." Upon hearing this, everyone got up and withdrew.

After a while, Li Dan saw through the glass that Wang Xu was guiding the eunuch Xia Shu to come in, and hurriedly went out and walked down the steps and said, "Father-in-law Xia, why are you?" Aren't you in the pen? ”

"My San Lang, don't be you, you, the old slave can't stand it, you Lord Li may enter the cabinet to pay respects!" Xia Shule hurriedly bowed and returned the salute.

"How's it going? In front of you, you are still a junior, and you have to have the etiquette you should have, especially in our private life, you don't have to pay attention to those false words.

You also know that most of my civil officials are impostors killed with knives and guns, and I don't have patience for those sour fake vinegars. Li Dan's words made Eunuch Xia laugh.

The two of them entered the house and finished serving tea, and everyone withdrew. Eunuch Xia told Li Dan softly: "Lao Liu is confused, and the emperor gave him a house on the old love and asked him to go to Jinling to retire." ”

"What's going on?" Li Dan asked in surprise.

Lao Xia Yi, he knew that Liu Kan was sent to Nanjing at the time of his departure, and at the same time learned a shocking news: Zhu Zhan was impeached!

"What's this? Is there a connection between them? ”

It turned out that Zhu Zhan was once out in the rain and when he was looking for someone to shelter from the rain, he saw that the other party had a few Song books at home. At that time, I came back without rummaging, but I talked to people a few times.

Later, a doorman brought the book to him as a bought, and the fat bookworm took it without even thinking about it.

Where did he know that after more than half a year, Shunfu suddenly came to the door, and those books related to people's lives surprised him. Hurry up to find the Qingke, who has been imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and then the imperial history impeached him for instigating the Qingke to kill people and steal books.

At this time, the emperor had to suspend him from his post and stay at home to wait for investigation.

And that Liu Kan, he shouldn't have been, he was an old man when he was in the palace, he watched Zhu Zhan Yuan grow up, and he couldn't bear to see him suffer, so he secretly ran to tell him the emperor's decision, and told him to quickly try to exonerate himself.

Who thought that he didn't have time to leave, and was bumped into by the pedestrian division and the imperial history platform who came to deliver the decree.

The people around him ran to leak the news, and the emperor was naturally furious, even if he knew that he was distressed by Zhu Fatzi, he couldn't forgive! So there was the punishment of Jinling pension.

Li Dan sighed after hearing this, this father-in-law Liu has been cautious all his life, he didn't expect to be so confused in his fifties. And no, his apprentices Sun Liangwu and Liu Xi are all hungry.

"So the emperor appointed you as the chief administrator? Congratulations, congratulations! And what about Bingbiji? "Li Dan wants to ask for love.

"It's over to Zidanian."

"Oh! That dignitary, it turned out to be from the imperial dining room? "Li Dan remembered a flexible fat man, but that guy was an Ergu people." My father-in-law is here tonight, but what is your majesty's decree? ”

"Nothing special." Eunuch Xia took out an envelope from his sleeve and handed it over.

Li Dan saluted first, opened it, saw that it was a royal pen, and asked: "The First Bank of Liaoning is now operating well, and banknotes and auxiliary coins are already in common in Liaoning, can it be extended to the whole country?" After reading this, Li Dan knew the emperor's intentions.

This dynasty has always been common to banknotes and coins, but there are many banknotes and few coins. In other words, the amount and type of banknotes printed and distributed are much greater than the precious metals held.

In the previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the rule of the Mengyuan Dynasty, seized a large number of precious metals from the Yuan nobles, Semu people, northerners and merchants, and printed and distributed many banknotes in order to cope with the Northern Expedition and the construction of the new dynasty.

Although there were also seizures in the early years of this dynasty, the Zhao family did not excessively squeeze the Han princes and large landowners in the north, and also had a tolerant attitude towards the merchants, so they did not hold so many precious metals, and they could not engage in the construction of feudal and prosperous palaces like Zhu Yuanzhang, but made more use of the materials left over from the previous dynasty.

However, money was still needed for the restoration of the city and the construction of the market, so paper money was also printed. By the time of Taizong and Renzong, the issuance of banknotes reached its peak.

Renzong allowed each province in the country to have a silver number that was responsible for issuing banknotes, which led to inconsistencies in the appearance, color, unit, value and even pattern of banknotes, which was quite confusing.

Although it was sorted out during the Xuanzong period, it was only improved, not cured.

On the other hand, the silver number printed banknote is the bill, which exists at the same time as the previous dynasty and even the Southern Song Dynasty's banknotes, leather banknotes, and jiaozi.

This situation causes confusion, and there are both new and old banknotes, and no one is responsible for returning the old banknotes, resulting in more and more paper money being printed on the market.

Some of these banknotes have blurred patterns, some are broken and rotten, and it is extremely inconvenient for the people to use, because the refusal to accept and pay bad banknotes and the resulting contradictions abound, which also cause a large number of illegal and counterfeit banknotes to circulate.

Although the local inspection departments have never been soft on counterfeit banknotes and counterfeiters, their suppression effect is limited.

In terms of use, in order to avoid receiving counterfeit banknotes, the official does not collect paper money when collecting agricultural taxes, as long as physical or metal currency, resulting in its official reputation is not high.

The reason why banknotes are still in circulation is mainly because it is irreplaceable in daily life, and people have no choice but to use it.

"Father-in-law Xia, believe it or not, if the imperial court is only allowed to pay silver for any taxes, everyone will take the banknotes to wipe their butts overnight, and there will not be any banknotes in use in two years!" Li Dan.

At the same time, another reason why people love and hate paper money is that it is over-issued, only printed but not recycled, which makes the market over-owned, or oversaturated in a certain area, so that regional or large-scale inflation occurs.

For example, Shaanxi will print a lot of money will overflow to Gansu, Yulin, Henan and other places, where the original face value of the banknotes may only be worth 800 or 750 wen, the original can buy a sheep, now can only buy more than half.

"It's called currency devaluation." Li Dan told Eunuch Xia.

Having been a pen secretary for a long time, Eunuch Xia must be the kind who is well-read and quick to understand. He gasped after listening to Li Dan's introduction, and asked: "Then, is paper money not good, or should it be abolished and replaced with copper coins?" ”

"Father-in-law, you hire a boat to go to Yangzhou on business, and the boat's round trip will cost six hundred yuan. Are you willing to give him the banknotes, or are you willing to carry him the three times and six hundred coins? Li Dan smiled as an example.

"I ...... Of course I'm giving paper money, can it be more convenient? ”

"That's right!" Li Dan high-fived: "Everything exists, it makes sense!" Paper money has been used for more than 200 years, and it must have its benefits. The reason for all kinds of problems is probably not the paper money itself, but the people who do not use it well. ”

Li Dan pointed out the disadvantages of the current paper banknotes: printing and issuance are not uniform, and the units are not unified; There is no clear and effective way to recover rotten banknotes, and there is no relevant law to protect the issuance and use of banknotes;

The official is only used as a supplementary means, and it is not treated as currency, and the anchor is chaotic.

The result of all this is that the credit of paper money is vacillating, and people are wary and skeptical when using it.

"It's hard and hard to change all this, it's easy and it's easy." After Li Dan finished, he took out a cowhide wallet from his belt, took out a few Liao coins from it and spread them out on the table, and took out two banknotes used in the mainland to spread them aside.

"Father-in-law, please see, this is the banknote issued by the Royal Liaoning First Bank set up in Liaoning, compared with the old-fashioned banknotes, you should be able to see the differences and advantages of the new-style banknotes at a glance."

Xia Shu's eyes lit up, picked up a new banknote, touched and flicked it with his hand, and then looked at the candle flame according to Li Dan's, and saw the dragon on the watermark, he was taken aback, and looked at it in turn.

"Amazing, how do you do it?" He exclaimed.

"I can't tell you this, this is an anti-counterfeiting top secret." Li Dan smiled and pointed: "Father-in-law, please see, this paper material is special, mixed with colored silk threads, the numbers before and after are opposite, and there are anti-counterfeiting watermarks and special inks."

If it weren't for the tens of millions of people who printed something like this, they wouldn't be able to imitate it! At first glance, it is a good thing, so good that the people are reluctant to use it, then it can be equivalent to precious metals.

The Bank of Liaoning has branches or sub-branches in various cities and has set up offices in larger towns and forts, so that it can not only provide thousands of employees with the opportunity to work and earn money to support their families, but also these people can skillfully carry out the collection of rotten banknotes and the issuance of new currencies in accordance with the "Monetary Management Regulations."

Most importantly, we issue banknotes using gold and silver seized from the war and recovered from transactions with Seyan, Royan, Joseon, and Nyo-Naoto, as well as precious metals contributed by shareholders when they became shareholders.

These banknotes, called credit money, have an unlimited repayment capacity and can be flexibly and safely deposited on top of the anchored amount of precious metals.

There are inflows and outflows, keeping the stock of money in the market within a reasonable but not excessive.

As a legal institution entrusted by the government, banks put the issued currency on the market through credit to meet the needs of various industries such as commerce, industry and mining, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. ”

"So, paper money can't do without merchants?"

"It was commerce that gave rise to paper money.

The dynamism of commerce and commerce gave life to the empire, and in turn this dynamism gave rise to the need to buy or sell in large quantities, and they demanded that the old currency, the currency that was not adapted to the era, be withdrawn from the stage and replaced with a new, more convenient, light, but worthless currency.

For example...... This Liao coin in my hand! Li Dan held up a new bill.