Now Liangshan has occupied Weizhou, Mizhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Haizhou, and the entire Jingdong Road has been owned by Liangshan.

But occupying and occupying it, in fact, did not completely turn these states and counties into its own, everything has to wait for the slow liquidation of the gentry, land division and other things to be done, before we can really say that these are Liangshan's territory.

And because what Liang Shan did before has spread all over the world, the current gentry and heroes have already joined forces and decided to resist to the end.

In each state, there were thieves everywhere, and they resolutely refused to allow the Liangshan army to smoothly take over local power.

In addition to the name, the only tangible benefit is actually the access to the sea.

And with access to the sea, many things are really convenient.

The sea ships on Meng Kang's side have not yet been built, but there is a city ship division of the Great Song Dynasty on the Mizhou side.

This city was the equivalent of the customs office in later generations, and its main work was to manage maritime merchants, purchase goods at low prices (called bomai), and collect taxes.

In this year, the monthly tax was not collected for gold and silver, but for in-kind, and different proportions of in-kind were collected according to different goods, and these collected in-kind taxes also had to be sent to Kyoto, which was called extraction.

In this era of inconvenient transportation, the cost of transporting materials is often higher than the value of the materials themselves, so the city often starts to Kyoto once a year, and it has to be mainly transported by water, as little as possible by land, otherwise these taxes are not enough for the road fee.

However, this year, the trouble of transportation was saved, and Liang Shan came directly to receive it.

Not only did they receive the supplies, but they also received the entire city and the people inside.

Replace a few officials in charge, promote a few clerks below, and then scatter a lot of money, and the city will be completely owned by Liangshan.

In addition to the harvest of the city, there are a large number of sea ships coming and going there in this Mizhou every day, and there are also many shipyards building large ships there.

Those private shipyards, Li Ghost has not moved for the time being, but those government-run shipyards, even sea ships with docks and craftsmen, have changed their surnames to Li.

Because of this, Li Ghost has firmly established the development principle of "it is better to build than to rob".

Under the effect of this guideline, while suppressing bandits, Liangshan also accelerated the offensive against the powerful manors in various places, steadily and steadily, and advanced step by step.

In the repeated tug-of-war, the Liangshan army also achieved remarkable results, and the food obtained from fighting the local tyrants was enough to feed the people under his rule for a year or two.

Of course, Li Gui will not distribute the fruits of his hard work, but in view of this, the people under Li Gui's rule no longer have to pay agricultural taxes.

As for the gold and silver that were looted, they were completely used for the development of the territory.

Anyway, the Liangshan government has money, and Li Gui's subordinates are not forced to do labor, and if there is work that needs to be done, they will directly take the money to hire them, and if they don't do a good job, they will deduct their wages, and see who dares to fool things?

Li Ghost only knows how to engage in industry, but he doesn't know how to engage in industry, so he simply throws money and encourages businessmen from all over the world to set up workshops here, any type of workshop.

As for what to do when the money runs out?

Don't be afraid, the brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun have already taken people to sea separately.

Zhang Heng went to Dongying to look for sulfur mines and silver mountains, and Zhang Shun went to Vietnam and other places to purchase grain.

Li Ghost specially instructed the two of them that all the merchants on the sea were pirates, so they must be careful, don't trust anyone, and strike first when necessary, and it doesn't hurt to make a temporary cameo as a pirate.

If you encounter overseas crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, rubber trees, etc., whether they are useful or not, they will also be brought back, which will be of great use to the future development of Liangshan.

Jin Dajian and Xiao Rang are already thinking about how to print Jiaozi and anti-counterfeiting, and as soon as the silver on Zhang Heng's side is in place, they can fully roll out the banknotes under their rule.

As soon as the seigniorage is opened, are you still worried about the lack of money?

Why did Cai Jing get on the throne?

Isn't it that the imperial court has no money, and Song Huizong wants to "Fengheng Yuda", what should I do?

Fan Zhongyan's change of law was to eliminate redundant personnel, and it failed.

Wang Anshi's change of law was to increase fiscal revenue, but it also failed.

So what is Cai Jing going to do?

The answer is to harvest leeks!

First, send out the children indiscriminately, and there is no need for reserves.

When Jiaozi depreciated sharply, it was announced that Jiaozi was invalid, and a new currency "Qian Yin" was issued, and then the harvest continued.

Then he allowed "salt money" to be used as currency, which could buy tea and other government monopoly materials, and then the imperial court could profit from it as long as the price of salt was raised.

As a result, leeks were cut from all walks of life across the country, and only the imperial court was rich.

With this skill, Cai Jing successfully sat firmly in the phase and rose several times.

Because only he can help Song Huizong make a lot of money.

But the consequences were also very serious, the private economy of the Northern Song Dynasty was completely killed, and the originally prosperous business became a pool of stagnant water.

Li Gui will not hand over the responsibility of printing the banknotes to the government, but will directly incorporate it into the name of the future Divine Cult.

With the gods staring, who dares to print money indiscriminately?

pinched the money bag of the imperial court, although it will definitely affect the speed of economic development, but the speed of the government cutting leeks will also decrease accordingly, and the inflation rate will not be so fast, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious, how to choose, it all depends on the thought of Li Gui.

No one in the current Liang Shanjun knows what this means, at most they think that this is the money bag of Li Gui's brother, and let Li Gui collect this coinage.

In the future, he said that he would not be able to focus on this coinage, and he would not stop until he had to kill people's heads.

As for the new banknotes set up by the imperial court, Li Gui doesn't care, if the court abides by the rules, it can use anyone's money, but if the court does not abide by the rules, and the people are not stupid, they will naturally choose the paper money of the Holy See.

Merchants are the most unruly creatures, and wherever there is money, they run away.

Although Liangshan was a thief and very unfriendly to the gentry and landlords, he was very polite to outsiders.

There are few taxes, and there are no various taxes and tolls, although it is indispensable to still need to go up and down, but compared with other places, the hidden cost is much lower.

The only bad thing is that you can't buy land here after making money, so you can only transport the money back to your hometown, but now there are frequent wars, if this money is transported on the road, I am afraid that it may be cheaper which mountain king.

Now the places of turmoil are far more than Jingdong Road and Hebei.

There were also rebellions from all walks of life in the surrounding areas, but they were too hasty, and the local armed forces were not weakened, and they did not cause too many waves.

But this is already a very bad sign.

The weakness of the Great Song Dynasty has been undoubtedly revealed by successive defeats, and those who are ambitious, even if they have not rebelled yet, are on the way to prepare for a rebellion.

With the current military strength and economic situation of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not be able to sustain a few more large-scale rebellions.

The following does not count as words:

Jiaozi was originally invented by a private money village in Sichuan, because Sichuan lacked copper and copper coins were not enough, so there were shrewd businessmen who used their own credit as a guarantee to issue paper money, which could be exchanged for copper coins at any time.

During the reign of Song Zhenzong, the government issued Jiaozi licenses to 16 wealthy banks, and a joint guarantee system was formed between them, and the credibility of Jiaozi was guaranteed.

Thanks to a stable and sufficient money supply, Sichuan's economy flourished, and by the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan was already as prosperous as Jiangnan.

However, the benefits of over-issuing currency were seen by the imperial court, so it was nationalized.

When the government first took over Jiaozi, it was quite conscientious and responsible, and printed the face value of the same to ten times in advance, making Jiaozi a standardized currency.

There are restrictions on the amount and reserves for the issuance of Jiaozi.

At that time, the reserve ratio was 28%, the limited number of Jiaozi was 1.25 million, and the official reserve was 360,000 guan iron coins as reserves, which increased the money supply in the market by 890,000 guan, and the government made 890,000 guan for nothing, giving the best of both worlds.

There is also the concept of boundaries in official relations.

Every three years, it is a boundary, and after the expiration of a boundary, the people return the old Jiaozi in exchange for the New Territories Jiaozi, and the circulation in the market remains unchanged.

However, unrestricted power naturally has the intention of doing evil, and the ancient government was unrestricted power.

The Northern Song Dynasty was in war for many years, and as soon as there was a shortage of money, they would indiscriminately send friends and harvest the people once.

Soon the reserve ratio of 28% became 14%, and then it got lower and lower, lower and lower......

(End of chapter)