A few days later, Bi Shu and Bai Li Xian returned directly from Liaodong to Luoyang, and Xiang Zhuang immediately summoned a group of important civil and military officials to convene the first court discussion after the capital was moved.

The new royal palace in Luoyang was renovated and expanded from the former county magistrate's mansion of Luze. The scale of the building is far from comparable to that of the Ziling Royal Palace. Moreover, due to its age, it has become dilapidated. The concubines who moved in the harem complained, and Concubine Si even complained at Xiangzhuang's pillow every day, but Xiangzhuang turned a deaf ear to this.

Even the imperial court Xiang said, "King, this palace is a little simpler. Did you specially gather thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of civilians to build a palace again? I don't want to compare with the palace in Zhiling, at least make the king live more comfortable." Xiang said this, and the ministers involved in the court discussion also agreed.

"I won't mention this matter for now." Xiang Zhuang refused without hesitation. If conditions permit, Xiang Zhuang would of course be willing to live more comfortable, but is it time to enjoy it now?

"Talk about the main business first." Xiang Zhuang said, "After moving the capital to Luoyang, all kinds of affairs are complicated. It is not a matter of one thing overnight to clarify the matters. Especially to make all the affairs of Sanchuan County and the five counties of Wei on the right track, it will take some time. At least before the autumn grain harvest next year, it will be impossible to use troops to the outside world."

Xiang Da, Xiang Tuo, Bi Shu, Gao Chu, Wu She, Baili Xian nodded silently.

Moving is indeed a big deal. Even if a small family moves from one place to another, there will be a lot of problems, such as the location of a new home, the renovation of houses, furniture, land purchase, and the other is to deal with neighbors, familiar with the local customs and culture, etc., etc., a large basket.

This is the case with small families moving, let alone the country moving the capital.

Xiang Zhuang continued: "You all have to talk about how to transition during this period."

Gao Chu first said: "King, I think the most urgent task is to suppress bandits. The bandits in Wei State are too rampant. If they are not wiped out as soon as possible, it will seriously affect the stability and development of the five counties of Wei State."

Gao Chu had already reported to Xiang Zhuang alone, but no one knew about it. Xiang Zhuang said: "Shizhizhi talked to everyone about the bandits of Wei State."

Gao Chu told the story of the causes of the bandits in Wei State in its original state.

The bandits in Wei State were very complicated. Some of them had occupied the mountain and became king because they could not bear Peng Yue's brutal rule, and some of them went up the mountain and became enemies after Qi destroyed Liang State. However, more of them were defeated and escaped from the Mianshui battlefield. Because several important roads returning to Guanzhong were blocked by the Chu army. They could only escape to Wei State and became enemies.

In ancient times, the natural dangers in Guanzhong were not a fan. Apart from Hangu Pass, Wu Pass and Hanzhong, there was no other way to go. As the king of Han, Liu Bang had no choice but to venture into Yao Mountain and escape back to Sanchuan County for a lifetime? Not long after escaping to Mianchi, he died.

Even Liu Bang was like this, you can imagine the defeated soldiers who fled from the battlefield.

The situation has eased a little now, and if you can prepare enough dry food, you will not have a chance to return to Guanzhong. However, these defeated soldiers have already missed the deadline for a more temporary rotation. According to the law, they will be beheaded and even affect their relatives in their hometown. Therefore, these defeated soldiers have lost their wish to return to Guanzhong and simply put them on the battlefield in Wei.

Baili Xian said: "But I didn't expect that the bandits in Wei State were so rampant. However, if they were handled well, these bandits might still be a great help to our Great Chu."

Xiang Tuo disbelief: "The military advisor is so bad. How can a bandit be a helper?"

"Why can't it be a helper?" Baili Xian said, "Duke Liang just said that the bandits in Wei were defeated from the Mianshui battlefield. Most of these bandits were strong men, and the number was likely to exceed 100,000. If these bandits could be incorporated into registered households, the farming of Liang's state would be immediately improved!"

When Xiang Zhuang heard this, his heart suddenly moved slightly. This is a good idea to turn a waste into a treasure.

"Carry the bandits as registered household registration?" Xiang he disagreed, "How is this possible?"

Bailixian smiled slightly and continued, "I dare to ask Lingyin, what are the reasons why these bandits are bandits?"

Xiang said without hesitation: "That's all right, of course it's for survival."

"Well, the reason why these bandits become bandits is to survive." Bailixian nodded gently and said, "Then, if the king now lends them a household to a household and gives them a hundred acres of land each, Ling Yin believes that these bandits will choose to continue being bandits, or will they choose to clean up new things and become human beings again?"

"Borrow them and give them another hundred acres of land?" Xiang Tuo shouted, "Isn't this a gangster?"

Baili Xian said: "Taiwei, if these bandits have become registered households, how could there be the saying of bandits?"

Xiang, Xiang Tuo was speechless, Xiang Zhuang looked around Bishu, Wu She, and Gao Chu asked, "What do you think?"

Wu She pondered but Gao Chu nodded slightly and said, "King, I think it's a complete try. In fact, many bandits have already married and had children in the local area and integrated with the Wei people. On the surface, they are no different from the people, but they are still doing the robbery in secret."

Bi Shu pondered for a moment and said, "But there are many years-long bandits among these bandits. If they just lend a hundred acres of land to a household, it would be difficult to intimidate them. I think the government soldiers need to be transferred from each county to adopt the strategy of using suppression and servitude, and go to each county government to borrow within a time limit, otherwise, there will be no mercy!"

Bailixian smiled and said, "I am worthy of being the general, and I hit the nail on the head with just one word."

Xiang Zhuang said to Gao Chu: "Since I went back, I ordered each county to post a list of documents, which was within three months. If the bandits in each county could borrow within three months, they would be exempted from punishment and issued to official households to borrow, and then a hundred acres of land were given. In addition, three years of taxes on money, grain and taxes were exempted. However, if the time limit was not accepted, all troops would be sent to wipe out!"

"Yes!" Gao Chu knelt down from the seat and replied with a loud bang.

"Okay." Xiang Zhuang nodded slightly and said, "There is another thing. The news from Eumu Cliff has just been sent back from Guanzhong. It is said that Bai Mo plans to set up an official to specialize in salt and iron. In addition, there seems to be a disagreement between the Han Dynasty and the Yuezhi people. Bai Mo has ordered the closure of all checkpoints leading to Hexi, and it is strictly forbidden for Guanzhong vendors to trade salt and iron and other items to Hexi."

When he first received this secret letter, Xiang Zhuang thought it was Eumu Cliff that it was wrong, because in his memory, Hexi was Qinghai in later generations. Although most areas were occupied by Qiang Di tribes of all sizes, there was also a salt lake in the Hexi Corridor occupied by the Yuezhi people. How could the Yuezhi people lack salt?

Later, after Qu Bucai explained, he finally realized that in ancient times, the traffic was inconvenient and the circulation of information was not smooth, and the circulation of production technologies such as iron smelting, salt making, weaving and cloth became even more difficult. Therefore, the barbarian tribes such as Qiang, Di, Yuezhi, Xiongnu, Donghu did not know how to dry salt, and they could not cook salt, so they relied heavily on the supply of salt in the Central Plains.

There is a saying that goes, this is called living a hard life in Baoshan.

"Salt and iron specialty?" Xiang He, Xiang Tuo and Wu She had no reaction, but Bi Shu and Bai Li Xian's faces changed slightly.

Baili Xian shook his feather fan and said to Bi Shu with a smile: "Learning swords, this senior brother is really not easy. If the salt and iron franchise can be implemented, the Han Dynasty's treasury will be greatly enriched in a very short time. The huge deficit brought by the defeat of Mianshui to Guanzhong can be almost overwhelmed, right?"

Bi Shu also said sincerely: "Yes, this is indeed a trick."

Xiang Tuo was confused and said, "Why, is the salt and iron specialty very powerful?"

Baili Xian smiled and said, "Taiwei, the salt and iron franchise is not very powerful, but it is very profitable. Just look at how rich the salt merchants in Ziling are, you can know."

In order to encourage industry and commerce and expand business, Xiangzhuang did not implement the national policy of salt and iron monopoly, but handed over these two huge cakes to private companies for operation. Of course, ordinary merchants absolutely do not have this qualification. All merchants qualified to enter key areas such as salt, iron and grain are red-topped merchants like the Qin family in Badong.

Seeing Bi Shu, Baili Xian and others had no expression. Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but say, "Learn swordsmanship, Ziliang, don't you guys think this is a good opportunity to rob Guanzhong?"

"Well, loot Guanzhong?" Xiang he and Wu She looked at each other.

Baili Xian and Bi Shu looked at each other, but didn't know what Xiang Zhuang meant.

Gao Chu and Xiang Tuo were excited and said, "What, is the king going to use troops to Guanzhong again?"

"Use military?" Xiang Zhuang was stunned for a moment, then shook his hands repeatedly, "No, no, no, it's not what the people think. I'm talking about business struggle, not military struggle."

"Shang Struggle?" Gao Chu, Xiang Tuo was still confused.

Xiang and Wu She were also unaware of the so-called, but Bi Shu and Bai Li Xian seemed to have some understanding.

For the ancients of this era, financial wars were of course completely unknown, but there was already primitive academic research on the nature of financial wars. Financial wars sound mysterious, but in fact they were just buying at a low price. Bishu and Bailixian had a lot of knowledge, so they naturally had dabbled in this area of ​​knowledge.

Xiang Zhuang's involvement in the financial field is also extremely superficial, but for this era, his financial knowledge can be regarded as the level of a master. At least Xiang Zhuang has learned about the financial crisis in 1997 from the Internet and generally knows the operation methods of Wall Street's financial tycoons looting several emerging economies in Asia.

The method is to first buy a large amount of currencies from various countries, and to speculate on the exchange rate. When the exchange rate rises to a certain level, then release a large amount of currencies from various countries that were bought in advance to earn the difference. When Asian countries exhaust their foreign exchange reserves and the exchange rate collapses, they then take out a very small amount of US dollars to enter the market to buy at the bottom and collect the body, so as to easily control various assets of Asian countries.

Of course, there was no finance at all in this era, but there must be a market. Moreover, since Qin Shihuang unified the currency system, all countries in China have a unified currency, that is, the listed currency, gold, and Wuzhu coins. With a unified currency, Xiangzhuang's crazy idea of ​​economically looting Guanzhong has also had a basis for realization.
Chapter completed!