The Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers held an afternoon meeting in the Guanjia Palace, although most of the things could only be done after Zhao Jun's eyes recovered, but it was not true that nothing was negotiated.

For example, they have set a rough plan for the future development direction.

The first is to wait for Zhao Jun's eyes to recover, to see if he can help the Great Song Dynasty solve the problem of three redundancies, strengthen the country, and develop the armed forces of the Great Song Dynasty.

As long as the Great Song Dynasty's armed forces can withstand the attacks of the Liao State and the Western Xia, it is good that they can immediately destroy the Xia and break the Liao, so that they can have enough time to free up their hands and solve internal problems.

For example, the harm of the three redundancies, the tax system, fiscal expenditure, education reform, etc., when the time comes, you can send a fleet to the sea to find rubber and oil, and at the same time, let Zhao Jun help fill in the missing scientific system problems and find the missing derivation part in science.

After that, it was logical to start the industrial revolution, and then the country rose rapidly, dominating the East, kicking the Western Xia, and punching the Liao State. Lay down a big territory, colonize the world, become the world hegemon, and plant red flags full of blue stars!

Of course.

These people look forward to the future, and they think about it beautifully.

In fact, he drew a grand blueprint for himself, if Zhao Jun heard it, he would probably have a stomachache.

However, they are not completely strong-mouthed, and they still put forward some constructive proposals.

For example, the cross-citation method is one of the redundant expenses, and the three phases and three counselors all believe that it is necessary to fully support Li Jianjian's money method and carry out effective rectification.

As for the problem of lack of money, it is necessary to intensify efforts to get the work done as soon as possible, quickly absorb cash into the state treasury, and solve the losses of the state treasury.

In addition, since the problem of redundant troops cannot be solved in a short time, it is necessary to promote competent generals first.

For example, Di Qing asked him to bring a few soldiers and horses first, train a group of elite soldiers, and when he started a war with Western Xia in the future, he couldn't be too passive.

So in the next few days, Zhao Zhen and the others were basically busy with these major events except for going to Zhao Jun's lecture for the rest of the time, but Yan Shu took a few days off because of his wife's illness and never came.

Soon, by the middle of May, it had been a month and a half from Zhao Jun to the Great Song Dynasty, and there had been a little change in the court in the past few days.

First of all, Yan Shu dismissed the secretary of the criminal department and the middle secretary of the imperial history, and changed it to the secretary of the household department and the deputy envoy of the third department.

The three envoys are not one person who covers the sky with one hand, but has a deputy envoy to clamp it.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many officials, and in later generations, a county, a city, and a province in China were generally between six and ten pairs, and under normal circumstances, they were all six pairs.

The Song Dynasty is very strange, not a question of a few pairs, but a dozen positives and dozens of vices.

For example, there will be hundreds of things such as being a supervisor and a Dali commentator, and it is estimated that there will be hundreds of Bianliang.

Every year, the new jinshi of the imperial examination is basically awarded these two official positions.

There are also many judges of Kaifeng Prefecture and promoters of Kaifeng Prefecture, because many of them are part-time officials, and the division of duties and powers is not clear.

The current third envoy is Cheng Lin, and there are also deputy envoys of salt and iron, deputy envoys of the degree branch and deputy envoys of the household department, and the deputy has a deputy, it can be said that there are more than a dozen senior ministers in a third department, and the order of officialdom is very chaotic.

Originally, the two brothers of Zhao Da and Zhao wanted to rely on this method to reduce the power of officials and increase the imperial power, so that with the military power held by the founding cup of wine and military power, the power of official governance and military power were weakened a lot, and all of them were in the hands of the emperor, which greatly increased the power of the central government.

However, the emperor alone must not be able to manage so many things, and the result is that there are too many officials, and the division of powers of those in charge is chaotic, resulting in two major problems: redundant officials and redundant soldiers.

However, thanks to the blessing of the Song Dynasty, the deputies of various departments and the deputies of the deputies often have little power, such as the financial power of the three divisions is basically in the hands of several prime ministers and the envoys of the three divisions, and the deputy envoys of the three divisions are more meaningful, and it is a good choice to lie down and touch the fish.

So Yan Shu was idle.

There were not many surprises in the court at this point.

The main reason is that Yan Shu has been haunted during this time, and his main job in the imperial history is not at all, and he has not seen anyone all day, and he has been impeached by the unanimous impeachment of the imperial history platform and the imperial court, and it is normal to change to the deputy envoy of the three divisions.

What's more, this is not a demotion, but a flat transfer or even a promotion.

Because in terms of grade, Yan Shu's official position is from the second-grade criminal department Shangshu and the household department Shangshu, the imperial history Zhongcheng and the deputy envoy of the third division belong to the dispatch officer, and there is no specific grade.

Therefore, in terms of rank, he was transferred from the second rank, but in terms of dispatch, because the deputy envoy of the third department is a high-ranking official second only to the prime minister, the deputy minister, and the prime minister, and has certain financial power. And there is no need to be on duty at the Yushitai in the future, and there will be more time to fish.

The courtiers thought that this was another great victory for the Lu party, and it was a clever hand that Prime Minister Lu Yijian installed in the three envoys to control power.

But no one could have imagined that Yan Shu's promotion to the deputy envoy of the third division was entirely because Zhao Zhen needed him to have more time to fish, stay by Zhao Jun's side every day, and not have to worry about the in the court.

So this led to the courtiers probably misunderstanding some things, originally some time ago the Fan Party was in the limelight, and some people in the Lu Party were overturned, and many officials wanted to be the grass on the wall, and they were ready to follow the Fan Party to do Lu Yijian together.

As a result, with Yan Shu's promotion, the wind suddenly turned back, and many people thought that Lu Dang was angry again, so they turned their guns on Fan Dang again, and the fold of impeaching Fan Zhongyan flew like snowflakes to the table of Zhao Zhen's imperial study, which was unexpected.

But it's all trivial.

The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty had a lot of power, and they didn't necessarily care who was in power, nor did they care who was loyal and who was traitorous between Fan Zhongyan and Lu Yijian, but during this time, some people became the grass on the wall, plus the original members of the Lu Party, everyone side by side made the Lu Party seem to be powerful.

In addition to Fan Zhongyan, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Song Shou, Cai Qi, Sheng Du and other three-phase and three counselors, as well as the three envoys Cheng Lin, the Privy Council member Li Zheng and others, have to be involved in several books every day, which is very sparse and usual.

Therefore, this little movement in the court did not make a single flower.

For the emperor, if you use it well, the fold that you have to do is no different from the paper you use to wipe your buttocks. If you don't use it well, if you don't obey it, that's a different story.

And in addition to Yan Shu, there is another little thing.

The official family inspected the Imperial City Praetorian Guard for the first time, and even went to the outermost Imperial Dragon Direct Praetorian Guard, saying that he wanted to see the might of the Great Song Praetorian Guard.

The Praetorian Guard was divided into five layers, and the first was the official of the Imperial City Division. The second is the wide clothes Tianwu. The third is the dragon bow and arrow straight, and the crossbow is straight. The fourth is the royal dragon bone Duozi straight. The fifth is the dragon straight. The five-layer guards protected the Son of Heaven from the inside out.

In the past, the official family of the Great Song Dynasty relied more on the officials of the Imperial City Division, but after the official family went to Yulongzhi, they vigorously praised a Sanzhi, saying that his team was well-trained, very powerful and majestic, and was promoted to the third class of messengers, palace attendants and battalion commanders.

This list of official names sounds quite powerful and domineering, but in fact it is just like that.

Because the third-class envoys and palace attendants belong to the military generals without rank, they are on errand as security guards in the palace, referred to as the guards with knives in front of the palace.

Inside, the commander of the Yulong Direct Battalion is good, and he is a lower-level officer, equivalent to a battalion commander of 500 people.

The problem is that he was a dragon before.

What is Sanzhi?

He was a soldier squad leader, with five subordinates, and was later called a squad leader.

What is the concept of being promoted to the commander of the battalion?

A compulsory squad leader of the Capital Military Region was appointed as the commander of the Zhongnanhai Guard Battalion, and this promotion is not insignificant.

And everyone knows that the Son of Heaven is going to inspect, no matter how bad the forbidden army is, everyone will put on a show during the inspection, and stand up straight one by one, and they are no worse than that little scattered in terms of appearance.

But the official family only praised the little scattered straight named Di Qing, and made him the commander of the battalion at a young age, and he listened to the heavens, what does this mean?

For a while, all the heroes and strongmen moved when they heard the news, and they all went to inquire if this kid named Di Qing had any earth-shattering background, and which family's relatives were outside.

However, the Great Song Dynasty Bianliang City is always such a place full of accidents, and the matter of Yan Shu and Di Qing was not a big deal, but it was circulated on a small scale, and within a few days, the things that the official family made up again were big moves.

His Majesty resolutely refused to allow the Privy Council's repeated requests for resignation, and intensified his efforts, either Cai Qi, Cheng Lin, Du Yan, Ding Du and others would fully cooperate and implement the money law as soon as possible.

At the same time, he also announced that the court would set up a Jiaozi shop in the city, and all high-ranking officials and magnates with a net worth of more than 200,000 yuan could deposit money in the Jiaozi shop for business purposes.

This matter is presided over by the governor of the political affairs of Shengdu, and all those who save money, no matter who they are, must be screened, not only to look at their net worth, but also to look at the fixed assets and the size of the industry. And to deposit the money in the Jiaozi shop, you have to pay a lot of deposit.

Jiaozipu has been around for more than 20 years, and all officials know it. It's just that it has always been the private sector or the local government on the other side of Sichuan Road to engage in Jiaozi shop, and it is the first time that Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, has engaged in this thing.

So the officials didn't know what was going on and waited and watched.

However, soon as Shengdu organized the "Jiaozi Affairs", which set up institutions such as the "Paper Making Institute", "Storage Institute" and "Seal Institute", and learned about the actual use of Jiaozi, they became noisy.

Because the Song Dynasty only restricted officials from engaging in commercial activities on the surface, and did not inhibit the government and officials' families from doing business, all high-ranking officials were very wealthy.

Many business tycoons are simply relatives of high-ranking officials, so after Sheng Du began to prepare for Jiaozipu, he immediately asked the official family to send people from the Imperial City Division to take out a list of officials with rich family industries and talk to them one by one.

Lu Yijian, Song Shou, Wang Zeng and other people with abundant family resources sent their family children to sign up as soon as possible, dug up the copper coins hidden in the cellar at home, and sent them to Jiaozipu to exchange for silver tickets.

For a while, the matter of Jiaozipu has become a hot event in the past few days, and many well-informed officials also immediately asked their families to take out the money and send it to Jiaozipu for storage.

Although it is necessary to pay a lot of money for depositing money in Jiaozipu, but after having a silver ticket, it is indeed much more convenient to do business, and the cost reduction can be much more than the depository money.

It's just that those who come are either like Lu Yijian and Song Shou, who put their money in for a show, or they have business in Chengdu, and there are countless business giants in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and less than one percent of the people who come.

After all, commerce was too prosperous during the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition to Bianliang and Chengdu are the two most prosperous commercial centers, there are also Luoyang, Fuzhou, Jiangning (Nanjing), Chang'an, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangling, Mingzhou (Ningbo), Quanzhou, Mizhou (Qingdao) and other places, all of which are extremely commercially developed and prosperous cities.

In particular, the southeast coastal zone, such as Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Mizhou, has opened a maritime shipping company, which is a trading port on the Maritime Silk Road.

Merchants from all over the world are in an endless stream, only opening the Jiaozi shop between Chengdu and Bianliang, covering only the Jiaozi line between Bianliang and Chengdu, which is of little significance to the merchants of other commercial routes.

Therefore, in the entire Great Song Dynasty business community, the establishment of Jiaozipu did not set off any waves.

But even so, Zhao Zhen was crazy with happiness.

Because in just a few days, Jiaozi has saved more than 500,000 guan, and this is only Bianliang, Chengdu has not yet counted, if Jiaozi is spread out in more than ten most prosperous cities in the entire Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that tens of millions of guan will soon be deposited in the cash cabinet.

There is no interest on this money, and there are also high storage fees and handling fees charged to merchants, so it is more than enough to solve the problem of the emptiness of the treasury caused by the money law in a short period of time.

And more importantly, this will greatly promote economic development, make the national fiscal and tax revenue more healthy, and the income will increase substantially.

At that time, merchants traveled to and fro to buy and sell goods.

For example, after Chengdu and Bianliang opened Jiaozi shops, merchants would transport Chengdu's specialties to Bianliang to sell in Chengdu, and then transport goods from Bianliang to Chengdu to sell, forming a fixed trade route.

However, the Song Dynasty did not have a large influx of silver like the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was necessary to bring copper coins when going out to do business.

Copper coins are calculated in a single piece, the standard has always been a thousand Wen, the weight is 5 Song Jin per run, according to the Song Dynasty 1 city Jin is 640 grams, about 3200 grams, that is, 6.4 catties. During the Song Huizong period, iron money became the mainstream, and it has always been able to have 14.4 catties.

Even if it is only calculated according to copper coins, to do a big business of 100,000 yuan, you have to go out with 640,000 catties of copper coins.

In addition to its weight, copper coins also occupy space, and water transportation will crowd out the storage space of goods, and it is also a trouble every time you get on and off the ship to carry it.

Therefore, due to such restrictions, it is possible that big businessmen travel between Bianliang and Chengdu once or twice a year.

But now after using Jiaozi, you can go a few more times a year.

Even if you don't need more, one more trip can leverage a lot of money, create a lot of jobs, and feed a lot of people.

Even if there is a certain turnover date for commodity goods, it should not be forgotten that the Song Dynasty waterways and maritime Silk Road were extremely developed, and the Grand Canal could achieve a nationwide circulation of goods.

As long as Jiaozi is spread out in the major trading cities of the country, so that the circulation of goods and coins can be faster, then the handicraft workers, shipyards, fleets, escorts, and restaurants, restaurants, dock porters, etc., can all benefit from it.

Therefore, after the opening of Jiaozi Shop, it is not only as simple as businessmen benefiting from profits, but also the economic environment of the whole society will be greatly improved, and the economy driven by it will be immeasurable.

This is a typical example of making plates and cakes bigger.

In addition, if the merchants deposited their money in Jiaozipu and revitalized the entire economic system through Jiaozipu, the official tax revenue of the Song Dynasty would increase significantly, and the surplus money would be used for the construction of education, transportation, and science and technology, so as to drive more jobs and development.

Arguably.

The construction of a single Jiaozipu will benefit the whole country.