"Zihou, this weapon can only be said to be a combination of the original Tiger Cannon and the Big Thunderbolt Bullet, which can increase the chance of victory, but it cannot be said to be able to determine the direction of victory or defeat."

Wang Ju made another metaphor: "The exquisite armor of our dynasty can be said to be unparalleled in the world, and has certain advantages over the Xixia and Liao Kingdoms. However, the two are offset by the fierce cavalry of the other side. However, they have greater advantages over Dali, Jiaozhi and Chameng, so as long as they respond to the terrain and climate, they can defeat them. In other words, they have advantages but not great advantages against these more developed civilizations. However, going east and south to deal with those uncivilized indigenous peoples, they will have greater advantages. But as long as they become slightly civilized and form a country with an organization and order, it will be difficult to deal with. Therefore, I let the fleet continue to sail east on the other side. Although I bypassed the core area of ​​civilization, I still had conflicts with many indigenous peoples, and the casualty rate reached one quarter."

Zhao Niannu said on the other side that Wang Ju is developing a new weapon to offset the cavalry advantages of the nomadic peoples.

But the current artillery cannons can only be equivalent to the level in the late Ming Dynasty, and the cost is relatively high.

It can play a role, but it cannot be said that it completely offsets the cavalry advantages of the nomadic peoples.

Unless it reaches the level of the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, the cavalry advantage of the nomadic peoples will be gone.

But if you want to reach that level, all technologies must be improved to achieve it. That is, you have to use a lot of money to burn a relatively complete industrial tree, but no matter how much money you burn, it will be useless without a large number of relevant scientists.

Can scientists from all walks of life appear in a short period of time with Wang Ju’s teaching books?

Anyway, it is probably unlikely that Wang Ju will be in his life.

"Zihou, maybe to make a metaphor. Normally, the war between Song and Xia or Song and Liao cannot be won by one aspect by taking advantage. The country's financial situation and support, the amount of troops, whether the logistics is sufficient, the planning and command ability of the general, whether ordinary soldiers are strict in military discipline, brave and fierce in battles. As well as the quality of the armor, as well as the terrain and climate hierarchy, can all determine the direction of victory and defeat. Just like Zhong Yan led his army to Yanzhou and encountered a big blizzard, Xixia Shui

If we flood our army, this is the climate determines the outcome. The terrain determines the outcome. The head coach is also very important. If Gao Zunyu had not led the central army and replaced by Miao Su or Liu Changzuo, even if he could not destroy Xixia, he would not have suffered such heavy losses. However, when the advantages in one aspect are more prominent, the backwardness in other aspects is not great. For example, if Li Jing, Han Xin and others are replaced by the commander, then Xixia will definitely be successfully captured. If the armor technology is further, it will be more powerful. The advantages of the cavalry can be offset."

"Zi'an, in this way, isn't our financial advantage very outstanding?"

"So although our dynasty was defeated, we could defend the northwest. Although the Xixia was a great victory, we could not even take back Mizhizhai Lanzhou. But in this regard, our dynasty has not yet made good use of this financial advantage."

How to play, let’s look at the Helan Stone two or three years later!

"Zi'an, are you confident?"

"Then dare to say it, Zihou. Maybe some people are already planning how to deal with me at this time."

"Zi'an, don't worry, after Your Majesty returned to the palace, he had issued an order to release An Tao to Qingzhou."

"It's not just him, but no matter what, the most urgent task at the moment is that we must settle the country before we can plan to make a fuss about Xixia and avenge our previous shame. Therefore, I asked the official to let me enter the Secretariat, give me rights, and give me three years of time."

"Why didn't Zi'an give the Secretary of the Central Committee?"

"Why did Duke Jiefu let Fu Gong be the prime minister at that time? He was the second prime minister? It was like standing in front of the prime minister, which seemed to be glorious and had a greater chance of being abusive. But Duke Jiefu did not expect that Fu Gong would take the lead in opposing his reform. However, the prince and Duke are different from the rich prince. Although he is not a reformist faction or an anti-reformist faction, he has the merit of supporting me, at least the Secretariat will not hinder me. And as soon as I came back, he would be above him, so the prince might not like it. Because of the delegating power and others instigating him, he might have suspicion. So I made three requests to the official family and put it first."

In short, Zhang Dun is a very good prime minister.

But he was more powerful and more sinister than he was, so he suffered a great loss from Zeng Bu.

But when I think about the queen in the palace, Wang Ju still has a headache.

Or kill Zhao Xu's son who was not born?

Isn't this bullshit?

Wang Ju asked again: "How much surplus is there in the national treasury?"

"There are some, but if the tax is loose, although the national treasury will not be tight, the fiscal period will inevitably be insufficient."

This is understandable.

It is either the loss caused by a crushing defeat or the post-war pension, which is also a considerable expense.

Six hundred thousand soldiers and civilians died.

One person planned to provide 30 to 40 guan, which was pitiful, and it would require more than 20 million guan. If a martyr, when Xiang Wang Ju was in the south, could provide more than 100 guan, the Song Dynasty's finances would collapse directly.

In fact, Zhang Dun used this sentence to tactfully persuade Wang Ju not to abolish Wang Anshi's reforms.

Anyway, the reform has been over so many years, and everyone has adapted. In addition, the previous vivid adjustments, including Wang Juhua’s strike and resetting the Southern Twelve Road Delivery Department, the harm of the new law is not as great as that of the beginning.

In fact, these seemingly fragmented ones are exactly what Zhang Dun came to.

It’s easy to communicate here. When we arrived at the court, one was in the Secretariat, the other was in the school, and the other was in front of everyone. How could we communicate?

As for important ministers, it is best not to gather in private, go to hell.

Wang Ju has already said that it only takes six years and the capital only has three years, so should we avoid taboos?

Wang Ju shook his head.

What should be scrapped must be scrapped, and what should be adjusted must be adjusted.

If you are not cruel and only have three years, how can you make the country prosperous quickly?

He said again: "It seems that we still need to discuss with the government."

What to discuss?

Find ways to get more gold and silver.

In fact, the country is also "making money" in a sense. Wang Ju estimated that if 100 million guan of silk is issued, it would be able to make more than 30 million guan in the other side. In the Song Dynasty, the waste might be a little more, but at least 25 million guan can be earned.

But there is a primary premise that these silk exchanges can be recognized by the people.

Therefore, Wang Ju used such complex means to exchange materials as a new deal, and the denomination was so small that it was to make everyone recognize it, making it difficult for some illegal kids to forge them.

It is expected that everyone will recognize it. This method alone is not enough. You must have almost treated gold and silver as your principal. Then the two methods are combined. Everyone agrees.

At present, the gold and silver that Zhao Xu saved together are more than two million taels of gold and one thousand three hundred taels of silver.

Wang Ju promised that in the next six years, he would bring some gold and silver from the other side every year to make up three million taels of gold and 20 million taels of silver. If the batch of gold and silver from the court was added, it would be more than three.6 million taels of gold and more than two four million taels of silver. Using this as the principal, more than 150 million taels of silk can be issued.

It seems huge, but it still cannot meet the needs of currency circulation in the Song Dynasty.

Wang Ju has been waiting for less than six years later.

However, we cannot squeeze the other shore desperately. Should we not develop the other shore?

So we can only start from within the Song Dynasty.

But this is a bit difficult.

Because of the prosperity of the economy and insufficient currency, the currency is becoming increasingly tense. Copper coins are tense, and gold and silver are even more tense.

This is how it appeared in the late Song Dynasty that one tael of silver is worth more than 4,000 ci, and one tael of gold can be worth 30,000 to 40,000 ci.

There is another unsolved case. Some people use the Ming Dynasty silver to say that the Ming Dynasty's economy is more prosperous, or the Song Dynasty's prices are higher. This statement is very wrong. Can the Ming Dynasty silver be compared with the Song Dynasty? The average cost-effectiveness difference is more than five times, and the highest peak can reach twelve times!

In this case, if you want to get some gold and silver from the people, you have to use some means.

"But the people also need gold and silver?"

"Brother Zihou, that's true, but I heard that some people have begun to use Zuyang's loom to transform into new-style textile and cotton textiles."

"It's because of this. Zu Yang is kind. This spring, he donated all the more than 40,000 dan of the patent to the Qingzhou government to allow them to pay mercy to the families of the martyrs. However, these looms seem to be far inferior to those launched by Zi'an."

Can that be the same?

However, Wang Ju is also very grateful to Zu Yang. In fact, Zu Yang's new loom can weave wool and wool fabrics. The secret is that he invented a primitive shuttle. Wang Ju sent someone to buy his patent for 30,000 guan, but the person sent did not reveal that it was bought by Wang Ju. That is, more than half of the more than 40,000 guan donated by Zu Yang was from Wang Ju.

As for the patent protection mentioned by Wang Ju, many people have regarded it as a joke in the past two years.

But Wang Ju pointed out that, and he continued: "Brother Zihou, you have this loom, and before I came back this year, I sent a fleet to the other side of the shore and began to expand the construction and reclamation of several settlements. I also instructed them to use these settlements next year to send two suicide squads to further deepen, one to the depths of the southern continent and find a divine beast."

"Divine Beast?"

"A very cute and valuable divine beast (referring to sheep and roe, also known as grass mud horse divine beast, haha), it is bigger than a sheep and smaller than a camel, but like a wool sheep, it has thick fluff, and its wool quality is better than a wool sheep. The other one is to enter the depths of the Northern Continent and find a new kind of kapok. Although it is still not as big as a big cotton, it is thinner than the kapok wool wet."

Slimmer means it is easier to spin cotton thread and more easily weave into cloth.

"The other side has spent a lot of money on developing high-quality glass (glass). Once successful, what goods will be sold to us? Do jade spices? How much trade can it bring?"

"Gold and silver flow back?"

“That’s right.”

In fact, since Wang Huo's scale has brought about the best-selling cold weapons there, the gold and silver of Dashi have flowed back, but not back to the Song Dynasty, but back to the other side.

This involves another issue.

In the previous life, the Celestial Empire had huge trade differences every year. Some people called it wrong, because there was a trade difference, but how many of them were foreign-funded enterprises.

This statement is wrong. Many of them are produced by foreign-funded enterprises, but these commodities are produced in the Celestial Empire, which will bring many employment opportunities and taxes to the Celestial Empire. Moreover, how many downstream enterprises will survive? If this continues, the industries and invisible income will be amazing.

Therefore, in this sense, as a country, people should be encouraged to dare to trade in a large amount of foreign countries. Of course, selling rare earths as cabbage cannot be forgotten.

The other side did not appear for a long time, and the people in the past almost had nothing. This is why they quickly became prosperous in a short period of time. Especially Fengshi and Wenshi, even in the Song Dynasty, were a medium-sized city. However, the difference is that rough industries began to appear in these two cities...

"Not only is gold and silver flowing back, although six years later, the other side will no longer have to donate to the court, and it will not be donated again until more than thirty years later. However, the population on the other side is finally very small. Do you need so much gold and silver? Then you must use gold and silver to buy a large amount of commercial goods and bring them back to the other side. Then the gold and silver on the other side, including the silver obtained from Japan, will also flow to our dynasty. Brother Zihou, are you still worried about insufficient gold and silver for civilian use?"

"If the two sides can be combined next year and can collect 100 million coins of gold and silver, they can issue 120 million coins of silk and make invisible profits for our dynasty. Although we cannot settle the accounts like this, for example, these gold and silver are the principal, and so much gold and silver will generate 10 million coins of interest a year, most of them are donated from the other side, so no one cares too much."

"Yes..." Zhang Dun also woke up.

Not to mention that the state issuing silk payments is profitable, wherever these gold and silver are stored, interest spreads will be generated every year.

Of course, it is better than having no profit in the treasury and is even sent to keep it.

Zhang Dun doesn't understand what this new economy is.

But he knew one thing: if he could earn 30 million more taxis in this year and a half, it would be enough for Wang Ju to do a lot of things.

"Zi'an, it's very difficult to get the people to hand over gold and silver spontaneously."

"Yes, let's make a conclusion together."

The two of them were planning to get more gold and silver from the people, and it was already a sensation outside.

"The young security guard is back."
To be continued...