"Old man, when it comes to industry and commerce, Xiaosheng has a private opinion: those who have always been in politics regard industry and commerce as the last industry, and regard agriculture as the foundation. To this day, this statement remains unbreakable. If it is forbidden and destroyed, it will be regarded as righteousness. In fact, if there are no craftsmen in the world, where does this thing that should be used every day come from? If there is no merchant in the world, how can this cargo be transshipped and circulated? It can be known that agriculture is the foundation, and how can industry and commerce not be the foundation of the country? ”

"The fundamental intention of industry and commerce is to promote people's livelihood, not just as a small way for private people to accumulate wealth, and the country should attach importance to it...... The imperial court should strictly supervise and control commercial activities, and vigorously crack down on the private ownership of salt and iron by supervising commercial circulation! Crack down on smuggled coins! Especially salt! In the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was even a shortage of salt, and the salt ban was implemented, and the people took salt, and collected tax profits, and the government and the local wealthy clans competed fiercely for salt profits...... It is necessary to completely suppress the ambition of these wealthy families to compete with the country! ”

The old man bowed: "Indeed, whether it is in our Daqi, or the Dazhou next door, the legal system is not complete, and it can even be said to be relatively chaotic, the situation in my Daqi is particularly serious, my Daqi originally did not pay much taxes, the smelting of gold, silver, copper and iron in the official camp, as well as the circulation of salt and rice, many of them have been squeezed out by the wealthy clans, minting private coins, selling smuggled salt, and even smelting weapons, which can be described as unbearable."

"Your Majesty and the princes of the court have long been aware of the risks, so one of the main reasons for opening large-scale markets in various parts of Daqi is to better macro-control the economy of Daqi and control the lifeblood of the country into my own hands!

"As for the salt you mentioned, His Majesty also attaches great importance to it, my dynasty originally ordered people to cook sea salt in Cang, Ying, You, and Qing Prefectures, but the process is more complicated, and the efficiency of boiling salt is not high, last year, I was in Haizhou and Gwangju, which are close to the sea, in the name of reclamation, in coastal areas and other places, reclaimed a large area of salt pans, and used the latest method of drying salt, from the end of September last year to the end of last year, the amount of salt stored in our dynasty is enough to support the use of our dynasty for two years, these will be used as materials, and Turkic, Khitan, Yan, Xi people…… and so on......"

He Ruobi's eyes lit up and asked, "Dare to ask the old man, what did Daqi use this strategic material to exchange with the savages?" ”

Gao Gong was originally a little unhappy, but the question raised by He Ruobi was a blind spot that he hadn't taken into account, so he suppressed his temperament and listened carefully.

"This kid's vision is different."

The old man glanced at He Ruobi with a smile and said with a smile:

"Those barbarians, what is there that deserves my attention? What they have, we have it, and what they don't have, I have it. What they can exchange for is nothing more than cattle and sheep, horses, slaves, and women, and of course, if they are willing to trade with my Daqi's Changping five-baht coin, it will be better......"

He Ruobi was pondering, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the inexplicable smile of the old man sunken under his eyes, treacherous like an old fox, he thought for a moment, and almost shouted:

"Yes, yes! I understand, if Daqi just wants to subdue those savages, he only needs to send out one or two border troops to suppress them by force! But Daqi is not, Daqi does business with the Khitan and other barbarian people, but the barbarians will be the opponent of the people of the Central Plains?

"Once they rely on Daqi for material needs, it is equivalent to tying up the chariot of Daqi. There are people close to Daqi inside, and there is pressure from the eastward expansion of the Turks, so they can only rely more on Daqi and become the pawns of Daqi against the Turks in the future! Right?! ”

"Yes, that's right, the Turks are powerful, and they are now allied with our dynasty because they have no time to separate, but these people are robbers and bandits! The looting character in his bones can't be changed, although the wooden pole is old, but his successor Ashina Kutou is an ambitious and insatiable person, even if he concludes a marriage, what does it mean? How many princesses did the Han Dynasty marry in the past, is it useful? The old man gave him an appreciative look, "But I have to deal with the Zhou State with all my strength in the next few years, and I have no time to doppelgänger, so I have made frequent concessions to the Turks on top of the issue of mutual markets, trying to let the Turks take advantage of them, and by the way, I will gather the naturalization of the barbarians except the Turks......"

"Economically contain the Turks, and use the same methods to pry the corners of the Turks, and try to make them stumbling ......"

"Yes."

"But why exchange markets with the South Korea? The Northern Dynasties have, in addition to the war horses, the Southern Dynasties almost all have them, where are the advantages of the Northern Dynasties? ”

"To tell you the truth, the advantage of the Northern Dynasty is very weak, and nothing other than horses can bring much benefit to the Northern Dynasty......

"Then why ......?"

"My dynasty's strategy is to sell horses to them......"

"This ...... How so? The Southern Dynasty lacks horses, and once it has horses, it will make up for the last shortcoming in the construction of the army! In this way, they will be like a tiger with wings, I heard that over the years, the Southern Dynasty has been fighting hard and horses, and there are heavy troops in Wuxing and other places, and a certain estimate has estimated that the Southern Dynasty can mobilize no less than 100,000 soldiers, and the rumors released over the years are that the Southern Dynasty will cut down Jiangling, but it is difficult to guarantee that they will not turn the spearhead and point directly at Jianghuai! ”

The old man pinched his beard, "Your Majesty has already considered what you said...... A few years ago, there were a series of natural disasters, a great drought in Shandong, a great flood in Jianghuai, the Zhou State entered the Kou again, and the northern Xinjiang was not stable, so the imperial court needed relief for the victims, and needed to mobilize generals and tens of thousands of soldiers to rush to the front line, so it was ...... Daqi almost exhausted his family's funds, and His Majesty even demolished the Great Buddha Temple and the Eight Great Halls of Jinyang that were being built, and emptied all the gold, silver and jewelry inside to be used as military funds.

"Even ...... For the sake of money, His Majesty had to come up with a 'money for sin', allowing non-capital offenders to use money to atone for their crimes! Until now, most of the cangfu in my court is still empty! Don't think about relieving yourself in two years, these shortfalls may be filled by waiting for this autumn's harvest, but the people of Daqi always have to eat, I ask you, where does the food come from? I tightened my belt, and even His Majesty ate two meals a day for a while...... But the Cangfu of the Southern Dynasty had a surplus, and His Majesty was more concerned about the lives of the people in the Jianghuai area than horses.

"Save people and save horses, Your Majesty chooses to save people. I raised millions of horses on the banks of the Yellow River (this is true, nearly three million horses were raised along the Yellow River during the Northern Wei Dynasty), and I am afraid that I will not be able to afford horses? I said to give him a horse, but I didn't say that among the ten horses of all war horses, it would be good to have one that could be a war horse (not that you can become a war horse if you raise a horse, the breeding screening conditions for war horses are more stringent, and generally speaking, it is difficult to have a good war horse among more than a dozen horses)

“…… Even if the Southern Dynasty tore its face and attacked our Dynasty, our Dynasty would have been fully prepared, Qinjun, Chennan, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Hailing, Shouyang...... Last year, I built an army and nearly 100 dangerous passes! Recruit tens of thousands of homeless people as government soldiers, order Pi Jinghe, Lu Qian and other cadres to train soldiers, and there are more than 4,000 sets of armor built in a month in the temple......

The candle shadow is faint, and the atmosphere seems to be frozen.

These words were released, apparently suppressing the two arrogant young men.

They all know that Daqi has made a big move in China and has done a lot of strategic paving for the future, but no one would have thought that Daqi's handwriting would be so big, and a few strokes of ink and color would faintly have the momentum of encircling the overall situation of the whole world.

The overall situation of the world will not collapse in an instant because the enemy country has a strong army, there must be a step-by-step process, in the final analysis, that country has stronger comprehensive national strength, that country can gain the upper hand in the game, and even eradicate the other party in one fell swoop! This is an eternal truth.

And among the two, He Ruobi was undoubtedly the most impacted, and he was stunned for a while before muttering:

"Great Qi...... Have you also begun to implement the system of government soldiers? ”

The government military system was founded by Yuwentai in order to resist the general trend of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, which greatly improved the military capacity and production capacity of the Western Wei Dynasty, and became the key to the Great Zhou Dynasty catching up with the Great Qi in just over 20 years. Didn't think of ...... Daqi actually began to follow suit......

"Yes, but it is only on a small scale, only Jianghuai and Hebei have implemented the system of government soldiers, and they have not expanded throughout the country."

After all, if it wants to spread, the resistance is too great, and Cushman & Wakefield also took advantage of the current situation to make this strategy.

"That Great Qi can also have more than 100,000 armor soldiers......"

The momentum of Daqi and Dazhou seems to be slowly leveling off again...... So fast......

He Ruobi's original idea was to take advantage of the gap between Daqi's national strength and Da Zhou, and he could use this to quickly accumulate credit and prestige for himself, and get the favor of the Qi lord, but he didn't expect that what he could think of, Daqi had already thought of it, and it was even more perfect. This made him suffer a lot of shock for a while, his self-confidence was shaken a little, and he doubted his IQ for the first time...... Needless to say, I was shocked.

"I originally thought that the national policy of Daqi was a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, and there was an urgency to fill the ...... there, although everything was very novel, but it was too undisciplined, some child's play and whimsy, and now it seems that my vision is too shallow...... No, it's that the layout of the people is so big that only the whole world can accommodate ......"

He Ruobi's heart was lost and his blood was full at the same time, excitement and fanaticism washed over and over his mind, he thought of a lot, and soon it was blank, he could imagine how powerful the Great Qi would be when the foreshadowing of Emperor Gao Qi was all done!

Follow such a powerful monarch and follow him to build a career, and this life will not be in vain!

He himself could not detect that his voice was trembling.

"Great Qi...... You won't sit back and watch Gangneung be swallowed by the Southern Dynasty in one gulp, right? Great Qi is ready to compete with the Southern Dynasty for Jingxiang, right? ”

The old man looked at him in surprise, and then smiled silently.

He Ruobi also realized that his question was too reckless, so he quickly stopped, but his face was red with excitement, and his heart was beating like a drum, his father's greatest wish in this life was to pacify the Southern Dynasty! Jiangling, soldiers must fight, occupy this place can bypass Hedong and attack the fortification! How could it be ceded to the Southern Dynasty...... How could it be ceded to the Southern Dynasty...... No way!

Gao Gong saw that it was not too early, and he had to hurry up, so he said carefully: "Although Your Majesty is far-sighted and far-reaching, the most fundamental problem of Daqi has not yet been solved, Daqi must be strong, finance is fundamental, and it is difficult to move an inch without financial support......"

Gao Gong nodded on the table, "At present, the household registration of Daqi is chaotic, the local government is not well managed, it is difficult to form an efficient tax collection system, and there are various service systems such as military service and labor service, which need to be improved......

"The dispute between Great Qi and Great Zhou, fundamentally speaking, is a struggle for national strength, a battle for the general trend, the Southern Dynasty is not enough to worry about, the Turks are not enough to worry about, only the Great Zhou is the enemy of life and death of Great Qi! Now the political situation in the Great Zhou is chaotic, and the opportunity cannot be missed......"

The old man stroked his beard and nodded gently, "What you said is also good, Da Zhou and Da Qi are indeed competing for the general trend, whoever is overpowered, who can destroy the other party, at this moment, every day, every instruction and adjustment to the national policy issued by the imperial court is fighting for life!"

"Da Zhou is slightly stronger than Da Qi, this is true, time is very urgent, this is not false. But His Majesty also said that you have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to do things little by little, and if you implement a policy without prerequisites or the previous policy as a foreshadowing, you will have a big mess if you implement it rashly!

"The old man has never heard that the hidden dangers of the country and the dynasty are not settled, and those who can calmly resist the enemy from the outside are pure nonsense! What you said is the most urgent and most important thing for Daqi to do, but this is ...... It is not something that can be done in a year or two, even if Your Majesty is wise and strategic, it is impossible to suppress all the voices of opposition, if you want to walk more steadily, the first thing to do is to move all the big stones on the road! ”

The old man sighed, "Although you are indeed very good, after all, you are too young, and you are still lacking in knowledge and pattern, and you are not very thoughtful...... As for the national financial problems you are worried about, I am opening up a mutual market to solve this urgent need! ”

"Although there are changes in our dynasty at present, but not fully implemented, when the first emperor, the ministers were in power, the political situation was chaotic, the people were deeply harmed, exploited, and several natural disasters, tossing our dynasty is miserable, and the breath is dying...... Fortunately, there is still today, since the country, there has not been a day when he has not been diligent in politics, he ...... Be sympathetic to the people and have the world in mind...... Where the emperor bathes, how dare he forget one day? The old man reverently arched his hand to the west and said: "What worries me the most is that the cadres are withering and there is no one to assist Your Majesty, but now, I am not worried, such as the two of you, both of you have the talent to assist the country, and you will definitely be ranked in the court in the future, and you will glorify your ancestors." ”

In the distance, a string of lights floated in the dark night, and someone hurried towards it.

The old man stood up on crutches and said to He Ruobi: "Your political talent is not as good as Gao Gong, if you follow the same path as him, I am afraid that you will be pressed down by him for the rest of your life, the old man thinks, your overall view is very good, your vision is also very unique, very sensitive, you should go to the army, Pi Jinghe still lacks a general, I don't know if you want to go, the old man can write a letter of recommendation, recommending you to this position......"

At this time, a group of maidservants and servants had already arrived at the door, bowed down and bowed: "Right Minister, the king can't see you, let the villain and others come to find the right phase, please move to the front hall." ”

"Good...... The old man immediately," the old man lifted half a cup of residual wine on the table, drank it all on his back, and showed the two of them the dried cup, "If you have this intention, you can come to the old man at any time, take this jade pendant, and the porter and the guards will not dare to stop you......"

"The old man wishes the two of you a bright future, this glass of wine should be congratulated in advance, hahahaha......"

The old man put down his wine glass, and under the support of everyone, laughed and left, leaving only the two of them whose brains were still in a state of panic to sit in place.

The sky was clear, a drop of rain fell from the window, and everything was silent, except for the lantern hanging from the head......