Chapter 575: Jinyi Day Trip (Part 1)
"Now the Western Xia Dynasty is full of sorrow. If it can be sold, all the children will be sold." Han Yun said.
That is, this thing was done smoothly.
However, Han Yun is more suspicious whether it can achieve the effect Wang Ju said.
In fact, Wang Ju also sent a cavalry to investigate in Xixia, knowing some of the difficult situations of Xixia, and in Yanzhou, he could also analyze that the Liang family might not object to Wang Ju's use of supplies to livestock fur, and perhaps it would have some helpful effects for Xixia. However, after this battle, Xixia also lost a large number of war horses, so the Liang family prohibited the people from using horses to exchange them in Yanzhou. However, it was not until repeated. Some tribes were poor and saw that the horse prices were high, regardless of the danger of beheading, they secretly brought good horses to Yanzhou to exchange supplies with officers and soldiers. This also shows the poverty of the people in Xixia.
Therefore, Wang Ju said lightly: "That's good."
"Zi'an, why did you give up Xia Toad Village?"
Wang Ju asked Han Yun to rush from Chang'an to the front line, with two intentions. This battle made Xixia very miserable, so he took this opportunity to stockpile a large amount of Helan stones at a low price.
The five famous inkstones of the Song Dynasty, Duan inkstone, Hui inkstone, Tao inkstone, red silk inkstone, and Chengni inkstone. In addition to these five famous inkstones, some inkstones are also famous, including the Helan inkstone made of Helan stones.
However, rare things are precious because the production of Helan stone was a bit high in the Song Dynasty. Although it was a "extra product", it has always been inexpensive.
But are tulips "rare"? Moreover, the economy of Xixia is so weak.
Of course, if you think about the successful operation, there are still many difficulties, and this has to be done step by step.
The second is to let Han Yun use the intelligence network formed by private wine to see if he can inquire about some useful information. At least this internal information can provide a good supplement to the information inquired by Rangers.
Han Yun did find out some information. He also heard a piece of news. In order to boost the people's hearts, the Liang family claimed that Renduolingding defeated the Song army at Xiamaling and regained the important camp.
This news shocked Han Yun. Could it be that Xixia launched a counterattack against the Song army? That is not good news. After all, many officers and soldiers retreated one after another, and Qingzhou now has not many troops.
I only found out that Xixia was spreading rumors after I came back.
But he still puzzled.
Wang Ju said: "In fact, the truth is that the treasury is gradually empty and cannot be fought."
"Oh," Han Yun sighed slightly.
"Now I have also revealed to Xixia that I only invade the current section of Hengshan, but this section of Hengshan seems at least on the surface. I cannot directly threaten Lingwu Avenue. If I want to threaten Yanzhou, I have to go through the checkpoints such as Nangtukou. As long as I withdraw my army, Xixia will renovate these checkpoints one after another and send troops to garrison. Although our dynasty has occupied a section of Hengshan, the threat is not that great. In addition, they are very afraid of failure now, and the envoy has gone to the capital again. Our dynasty will agree to Xixia's request for reconciliation, as well as domestic opposition voices, economic and people's livelihood and other issues. Xixia will not dare to send troops. But if it occupies Xiama Village, it will really threaten Lingwu Avenue, and Yanzhou. Even joining forces with Weizhou officers and soldiers can threaten the Douling and Xiaochuan areas. If it is too urgent, Xixia will send troops to rob it. If it is not done well, it will become a superfluous move and it is worthless for a village."
"I see."
However, Wang Ju sometimes felt confused. In short, this plan was discussed with Zhang Feng, focusing on stability.
When it is safe, the efficiency will decrease.
If it were Wang Shao here, what would he do?
The two of them talked for a while. Huang Hua pulled Han Yun down to have a drink.
Wang Ju was pondering. After a while, he issued another order, suspending the two salt exchange sites of Jintang City and Shunning Village, and instead transferred to the newly built Huaiwei Fort.
This fort is more than 70 miles west of Jintang City, located in the upper reaches of Beiluo Water, and is also one of the new fort villages on the front line.
Then he wrote another letter to Zhao Cheng. After all, this Huaiwei Castle is under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, in case Zhao Cheng has a misunderstanding. Since he dared to fight with Han Jiang, he must be a troublesome person, so he has to explain.
Although they were transferred to Fort Huaiwei, the private salt income here is still rewarded by the officers and soldiers of Fuyan Road, and the people used to take on the transportation tasks of Yanzhou and the Security Army.
In fact, Wang Ju did this with another intention...
Zhang Qi came from Dingbian City to Yanzhou.
"Zi'an, your two revealing buns are inappropriate," Zhang Feng said directly, not politely, either.
"Brother, my two gifts are favorable to good households below the fourth grade, filial sons, martyrs, female households, widowed and widowed households below the fifth grade, but do you think how many fifth grade households will be left in Huanqing soon?"
Now the people of the two states are crazy, especially the Han people, who almost carry salt on the ground every day. However, the foreigners are a little lazy. However, the foreigners are entrusted with military service, which has nothing to do with the tax and the Qingmiao exemption law. They are even in the household registration. Just like in Huanzhou, there are only five or six thousand households in the household registration, but in fact there are nearly 20,000 households. However, no official can understand how many households there are.
The money grab is not over yet.
For the time being, Qingyan was transported to several fortresses and placed in the warehouse. Wang Ju did not stop the merchants from transporting the green salt back immediately, but under this high-priced freight, how many civilians can the merchants hire?
However, after this salt grabbing, labor gradually came out. At that time, merchants would transport the salt back from the forts one after another. However, Wang Ju promised to keep it for them. At that time, he would pay the salt in full and there would be no fees. He also prohibited any soldiers from extorting them. Therefore, these merchants would not be so anxious, so the freight fees given were still very low in order to obtain the maximum profit.
But you have to pay some freight, otherwise the people are willing to transport them? Although it may be very low, it is because of its huge number, which will further reward some poor people.
Therefore, in the future, there will not be many real fifth-class households in the two states. If there are not many fifth-class households, the impact on the levy will not be too great.
"The Qingmiao Law is a little better, but the arrival of the exemption law will still have an impact." Zhang Qing said. The amount of the exemption law is even larger, so it would be fine if there is no comparison. With comparison, the powerful people will still have resentment.
"I also thought that there was no other way, so I could only find a way to find a way to spend money left over. First, take out the amount of money left over from the court to show everyone, and then write to the court. With the war caused a large number of casualties, the court asked the court to temporarily exempt the money left over from the levy. As long as the money left over from the levy is exempted, the tyrants will not increase much, and the resentment will disappear."
"Will the court agree?"
"Will you agree? I am in Gyeongju, why be afraid? If you don't agree, there will be a way to get them to agree at that time."
At worst, if something happens at the border, it will start fighting again. See if Wang Anshi still wants this money left.
Zhang Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "It's not a long-term solution."
"It's a day to delay. Maybe we leave Qingzhou and the new magistrate will abolish these two guilds." Wang Ju said helplessly.
"I don't know when the economy of the court will improve?" Zhang Shi sighed.
It’s better to have money for exemption from service, isn’t this lenient money disgusting?
Wang Ju was speechless. Even if it got better, the money was indispensable. In the future, he also developed a more crazy-dead hand-made method. It is precisely because of this hand-made method that although Lu Huiqing has always been good to Wang Ju, Wang Ju always stayed close to Lu Huiqing. But is it really Lu Huiqing’s fault?
"By the way, Brother Chou wrote me a letter, you can see."
That is, Zhang Dun wrote a family letter to Zhang Feng, but this letter is not a family letter. The letter talks about a lot of the national affairs of Gyeongju.
First of all, Zhang Dun wrote about the movements of court ministers before and after the Battle of Qingzhou, which made Zhang Feng a little disappointed. Because the one who said the most good things for Wang Ju was not Wang Anshi, but Wang Gui and Lu Huiqing.
Although Wang Jufei was a minister of the Wang Anshi faction, in short, he was a minister who was biased towards the reformist faction, and the victory in this battle had a great help in consolidating Wang Anshi's position and reform.
"Brother Huifu, Mr. Jiefu is noble in nature, so... you don't have to be too disappointed." Wang Ju comforted him and continued to look down.
What Zhang Dun wrote next was that the court was having a serious dispute over how to treat merit and reward for the soldiers. Zhao Xu's reward was rejected by Wen Yanbo. The reason was that it was too heavy, and he was afraid that the border ministers and soldiers would imitate each other in the future. The border was unstable and the war was endless. What did Zhao Xu reward? Zhang Dun didn't know much about Wen Yanbo so excited, after all, he was not a serious official now.
Zhang Shi was not angry. Wen Yanbo was an anti-war faction and opposed the court's heavy rewards. He had a wish.
Next is what Zhang Feng is really angry.
The war was over, and Wang Ju was robbing salt. Now the court also knew that it was a spoil. Even Wen Yanbo was not easy to refute it. At most, he said a few words. Can salt be taxed?
But it was stolen salt, not quit salt, and Wang Ju's actions could not be considered contrary to the imperial system. Wen Yanbo had no choice but to do anything about it.
But this is a considerable income, and new problems are coming.
After this battle, Shaanxi consumed all the grain storage, and even had to transport some grain and grass from the rear to support it.
However, the Qingmiao Law is linked to grain loans. If the grain storage is gone, how to issue Qingmiao Loans.
Therefore, Wang Anshi was calculating the consumption of the Battle of Qingzhou and the amount of food and grass transported to Qingzhou, and planned to deduct part of the amount of food and grass requested by Wang Ju.
Zhang Dun was not on the front line, and he was not very clear about the situation on the front line. However, he felt that it would cause trouble to Qingzhou, so he wrote a letter from his family, which actually gave it to Zhang Yu with a fast horse.
But can this be deducted?
Before the war, in order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, some of the food and grass that had not been transferred to the forts and forts were burned out, and then the people were transferred to the rear.
At that time, because the villages and villages transferred the food and grass to the forts and forts, the three armies did not lack food and grass.
However, after the war, the people came back, and the food and grass were promised to be repaid to the people. Moreover, there are still some garrisons and so many prisoners of war working. They have to eat and drink, and they will deduct one gram. Wouldn't there be big trouble?
So after receiving this letter in Dingbiancheng, Zhang Yu immediately rushed to Yanzhou.
"Zi'an, is the Qingmiao Law really based on the countryside and grain loans?"
Its essence is the method of making money. It may be mainly rural areas and grain loans. This is just a nice saying, but it is mainly money loans and urban households. Why do it be mainly urban households? Because most of the first-class and second-class households are in the city walls, isn't it mainly urban households?
However, this war consumed all the grain storage in Shaanxi, which did cause some trouble to the Qingmiao Method to make money, but the problem was not that... but that if you don’t take sides and have a neutral party, you will immediately become a child that your father doesn’t feel hurt and your mother doesn’t love!
Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "Brother, in this way, the next step of dew will be revealed, and the price of green rice will not change, and the remaining rice price will rise for fifteen cents per bucket, beans and wheat will rise for ten cents, and millet will rise for five cents."
"wonderful!"
The rising grain price refers to the price that is often sold to the people of the city.
In fact, some merchants already vaguely felt that the food was a little nervous after this battle. As long as the position was closed, all the grain prices would rise immediately.
There are two intentions. This increase actually erases the two-part profits of Qingmiao Loan. Qingmiao Loan does not even need to be mobilized. As long as it is distributed in the form of grain, it will be claimed immediately.
The second was to learn from Wang Anshi's approach in Yin County. In the seventh year of Qingli, Jiangnan and Zhejiang areas suffered a major disaster, and the rice price quickly rose from 400 citrus per stone to 1,500 citrus. In order to control the rise in grain prices, the court issued an edict that the price of rice should not exceed 500 citrus per stone. However, Wang Anshi, who was the magistrate of Yin County, did an alternative thing and issued a notice that the rice price would be allowed to rise, so it quickly rose to 3,000 citrus. For a while, the public was full of grievances and scolding.
As a result, when the Southeast grain merchants heard that the rice prices in Yin County were high, they drove the grain to Yin County together. So the grain was piled up more and more. In addition, Wang Anshi did some tricks and could transport it in but could not transport it back, so they had to lower the price and sell it.
In the end, the surrounding rice prices once rose to 5,000 meters, but the food in Yin County was very sufficient, so the people could live a stable life.
Wang Jufei made the grain price rise to that level.
This is because in fact, there is no shortage of grain on Shaanxi Road, at most, there is a shortage of grain loans for green seedlings.
Nowadays, most of the green salt is stored in various forts, but some merchants bring the civilians from the rear and transport the green salt back one after another. When they go, they are heavy trucks, and when they come, they are mostly empty trucks.
However, the price of grain rose by ten cents, which was enough to pay for the freight of the people. Some merchants must transport the grain from the rear to Qingzhou.
Moreover, the amount of green salt in this batch is very large and has been transported for a long time, so the amount of grain transported from the rear will not be small, which will solve the problem of insufficient food and grass in Qingzhou.
But this was still a helpless move. Wang Ju thought about it again and said, "After Xiang Yu captured Xianyang, some people advised him to establish his capital, but because he missed his hometown, he was eager to return to the east, and said that wealth and honor would not return to his hometown, like walking in the night with lust, who knew it. Therefore, Han Gong thought that he had great achievements in the Song Dynasty, so he built a house in his hometown and named it Jinzhoutang. Then, the three armies had great achievements in the Song Dynasty, so wouldn't they be able to return to their hometown with lust and return to their hometown with lust?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!