"Report to the Queen Mother, when the capital outside the capital heard that Prince An came back, they were all excited." The little eunuch replied carefully.

"Where can I get to the official family?"

"Here."

Gao Taotao found Zhao Xu who was reviewing the official documents.

She said, "Xu'er, I heard that Prince An brings you six great gifts?"

In fact, these six great gifts were not brought to Zhao Xu, but to the entire Song Dynasty.

So this is the most difficult thing, including the other side. People think that everything belongs to Wang Ju, and the common people are Wang Ju...

Fortunately, Wang Ju summoned everyone to partially correct this concept.

Zhao Xu also had this idea in mind, and he replied: "Mother, it's a good thing, it's indeed six generous gifts."

"Xu'er, this boy seems rude and arrogant, but he is really a scheming person."

In fact, Gao Taotao had a good impression of Zhao Xu before, especially Wang Ju sold all the bamboo paper workshops to the Gao family. However, the problem is that Wen Yanbo and the others had a bad impression of Wang Ju.

Although they could not see Gao Taotao often, Gao Taotao often summoned some women in the palace to gather and relieve boredom. Then they were those women, Sima Guang's wife, Wen Yanbo's wife... Well, good people are afraid of three challenges, and bad people are afraid of three persuasions.

Under frequent brainwashing, Gao Taotao's impression of Wang Ju gradually became worse.

Zhao Xu was unhappy.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the gold and silver. In the past few years, the other side will be given three million taels of gold and twenty million taels of silver to the Song Dynasty, worth 100 billion ci, and it has always been only 700 or ci, which is as much as ci.

The annual monies dedicated to the Liao Kingdom every year are combined, but only about one million monies. These gold and silver are equivalent to the annual monies given to the Liao Kingdom in nearly 130 years!

Besides, those other gifts are the same bad?

How could my mother say this?

Gao Taotao said: "Xu'er, why did this son give up half of the new machine to individuals?"

“Easy to promote and mutual supervision.”

In fact, everyone has long known the various problems of the "state-owned enterprises" in the Song Dynasty. Just like many pit mine workshops, before the Fangchang Hedu reform was implemented, many pit mine workshops were at a loss, but after contracting them for private purposes, they made profits one by one. This is a good example.

The key is that the tax system of the Song Dynasty was very unsound. If it was like the Celestial Empire, everyone understood that it was 17% and even if it was supported for small-scale enterprises, the starting price reached 3%. In other words, the Song Dynasty's tax was the lowest tax rate of the Celestial Empire. There was no hurry, and there were nearly twice the industrial water and electricity used, which was only the tip of the iceberg and various unexpected expenses. If it were not the Great Elder's anti-corruption, or the hospitality of officials to come and eat and drink, it would be enough to drink a pot.

Therefore, we cannot ridicule the Song Dynasty for making money. We can only say that the Song Dynasty’s system for making money is incomplete...

So when Wang Ju launched the sugar workshop, he adopted a joint venture method.

Wang Ju made a deal, and the management gradually became chaotic. In addition, sugar appeared on the other side. Although it was not sold to the Song Dynasty, it was sold to Goryeo, Japan, so the profit margin was gradually declining. This is the best proof.

Gao Taotao said, "Xu'er, you think people are too simple. The purpose of his doing this is to use this half of the shares to win over some noble relatives in order to promote the equitable business tax."

"Is it wrong for the mother to implement the common business tax with the minimum difference?"

"Whether right or wrong, the Ai family is talking about his thoughts."

"Mother, everyone has the intention and means."

"But he asks you for rights."

"Mother, Prince An has only been the prime minister in the capital for three years."

"What the Ai family is worried about is not his three years in the capital, but his three years in Shaanxi, when he will control 200,000 to 300,000 Shaanxi troops."

"Mother, my son said this. These more than 200,000, or 300,000 troops, including the forbidden soldiers, foreign soldiers, and rural soldiers, can he have the ability to gather so many different troops together, not to gather them to attack Xixia, but to rebel. It is because of this ability that these troops are scattered all over the place, from Hezhou to the west to Suide Army, if they want to rebel, they must gather the army to Tongguan together. If the army is gathered for him, can so many officials gathered for him? There are so many officials gathered for him, and there are generals and people, it is impossible."

"Xu'er, have you forgotten An Lushan?"

"This is exactly what the minister wants to say. How many roads of the military governors can An Lushan be able to gather, it was the Tang Dynasty who gave him all the rights of military, government and finance, including the right to mint money."

"It's what Prince An wants."

"Mother, after hearing from my son, how many years did An Lushan manage in Hebei? I only gave Wang Zi'an three years. Isn't this three years for him to stay in Shaanxi, and in two years, I will be in Xia. In two years, I will be able to gather all the officials, generals and soldiers in Shaanxi together? Even if I live together, I must not only have a promise, but at least give these people some benefits. Besides, so many troops gather and the troops are heading to the Central Plains. Our dynasty must be prepared. Hedong, Hebei and the capital are also huge.

As long as the army is blocked by Tongguan or Luoyang defense, it can last for at least one year. If nothing else is said, he will not be able to turn around. What the son minister said, is the mother understanding? Then why should he donate the money and silk from the other side to the court? He wants money and silk to buy people's hearts and prepare a large amount of food and grass in secret. However, now he asked the other side to sell the mine workshop to raise gold and silver and buy a bank department for me. If he had the intention to rebel, wouldn't he be the stupidest rebel in history?"

"Xu'er, can you know how much gold and silver there is on the other side?"

"Mother, how much has the other side donated over the years? In fact, in the past two years, the other side has supported some supplies from Yunnan Road one after another. I just pretended not to know. There was only a little population. Is there gold everywhere on the other side?"

Gao Taotao was speechless.

Wang Ju once said that Japan is the hometown of gold and silver.

There are so many gold and silver mines.

But after the autumn of the previous year, a large silver mine was found one after another.

So in the face of such a huge amount of gold and silver, Zhao Xu would not have any suspicion.

In fact, he was wrong. Wang Ju couldn't rebel, and even wanted to rebel, but he dared not rebel. It was not what he said. If he really wanted to rebel, as long as he could gather 20,000 cavalry and then find an excuse to quickly rush back to the capital and behead him, the Zhao Dynasty would be over.

But why don't you dare to rebel?

It is easy to behead, but it is difficult to be the one behind. The Song Dynasty has not lost the people's hearts now. If Wang Ju really dares to play like this, the Song Dynasty will be divided immediately. Even if Wang Ju takes advantage of his overseas advantages and spends more than ten or twenty years to stabilize the world, it will become a mess, and Wang Ju himself is old. So why bother? If you want to be an emperor, you might as well be a Xiaoyao King on the other side. I believe that in twenty years, what will happen to the other side? There are more than 20 million people, and you don't have to take any risks.

However, the angles we stand at are different, and the directions we consider are also different.

Some people are also considering the direction...

An Tao was demoted to Qingzhou. In fact, Qingzhou was the capital under the name of Jingdong Road. The prime minister sent the best prefecture, undoubtedly Luoyang, Daming, Jingzhao, Yingtian, Taiyuan, and then Qingzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning, and Chengdu are still under Qingzhou.

Please remember that An Tao is not the prime minister, but just a minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Moreover, during the day, it was not Wang Ju who provoked him, but he was the first to attack Wang Ju.

Therefore, even though he was demoted and his official position was not dismissed, it was not considered too heavy.

Moreover, the banking department became a reality, and Wang Ju wanted to implement the equitable business tax, and at this time, he could not tolerate opposition. A little demotion of An Tao was just a killer.

However, some people were still a little dissatisfied, although they dared not express their opinions amid the cheers of the people in the capital.

In addition, there are some people who usually have good friends with An Tao.

Therefore, several scholars and officials came to An’s house, including Fan Chunren, the secretary-general of the Secretariat.

Fan Chunren was a little better and comforted him. In his heart, he thought that Wang Ju was rude and had no ethics, but he did not deny Wang Ju's loyalty to the country.

So nothing is easy to say.

Fan Zuyu sighed mournfully.

An Tao said: "Yaofu, Chunfu. You don't understand. Let me first say one. How many pieces of silk can you think a piece of silk can be made into? "

Here I want to talk about how much area is a piece of silk?

First of all, it is the length. Everyone thinks that a piece of silk is ten feet long and more than thirty meters. It seems that the same is true for each book.

However, it would be wrong to think so.

After Qin Shihuang unified the country, he also unified the weights and measures, but it was only a preliminary unification. In fact, the weights and measures and measurements of all dynasties have been very chaotic.

First of all, the weight was 16 taels per kilogram in ancient times, but after reaching the length, it became a decimal system, and one zhang was equal to ten feet. Therefore, Wang Ju wanted to abolish the hexadecimal system on the other side and set a 10 taels per kilogram. However, the people were not used to it. Wang Ju had no choice but to stop the one kilogram and ten taels per kilogram and restore the one kilogram and sixteen taels.

This is not confusing, just like a dou equals ten liters, but how many dou is one stone? Ten dou? no. Stone is a unit of weight. In terms of rice, a stone is only about eight dou.

However, it is not confusing. The most confusing thing is money. How much does it cost to make a one-thousand-money money? Wrong. In the Song Dynasty, the standard for money was seven hundred or tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of tens of ten

It has nothing to do with the court, but the number that the people themselves have to default.

However, with the stability of the Song Dynasty, especially after the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, the economy prospered rapidly, which also led to serious currency tensions and severe lack of copper coins. Therefore, the money was always only five or six hundred cents in private business.

If you don’t agree, then use Chongbao (that is, the big money issued by the Song Dynasty is slightly larger, and a copper plate is equivalent to ten cents).

If you don’t accept using Chongbao, then use iron coins.

If you don’t accept it with iron coins, then use paper to hand over tea and salt money!

But we can't blame the Song Dynasty for its inaction, it really does not have sufficient currency.

However, when Song Huizong was about to go against the situation, he began to make a fool of himself, regardless of the country's economic economy, which led to the loss of control of prices. Therefore, although paper money had progressive significance, it was not implemented in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Therefore, a piece of silk is ten feet long, so it cannot be taken seriously.

The real standard is forty feet, but if placed on silk, forty feet means ten feet!

But there is no hurry. Forty feet is not more than thirteen meters, because the lengths of each dynasty are different, and even the lengths of the same dynasty are different in different periods. About 40 feet in the Western Zhou Dynasty are equivalent to 92 square feet (797.25 cm). Han Dynasty, 27.74 square feet (915.58 cm). Tang Dynasty, 37.3574 square feet (cm). Song Dynasty, 36.9009 square feet ().

Therefore, in ancient times, people called husbands, but they were not a real man who was more than three meters tall.

This one is about 1.9 meters tall.

Of course, the height of 1.9 meters was quite amazing in ancient times.

The length of a piece of silk is a little bit better, and the width is even more chaotic. The width of a piece of silk in the Zhou Dynasty was two points and two marbles (1.3150 marbles, 43.83 cm). The Han Dynasty was 2.2 marbles (1.5247 marbles, 50.82 cm). The Tang Dynasty was 1.8 marbles (1.6811 marbles, 56.03 cm). The Song Dynasty was 2.0 marbles (1.8450 marbles, 61.49 cm).

Maybe everyone was disappointed, a piece of silk was less than eight square meters.

But look at the silk scarves on the market. A real silk scarf costs at least one hundred yuan, and a piece of silk can cut more than 30 silk scarves.

Don’t worry, this silk scarf was not the kind of good silk that was always worth a lot in the Song Dynasty. It can only be regarded as small silk. Xiao Luo (tulle silk), and a small Luo only has five or six hundred and six hundred and seven hundred.

One cent can be worth six yuan! If calculated based on tea, one cent should be worth two yuan. If calculated based on salt, one cent will be worth only five cents!

This has nothing to do with what An Tao said.

What An Tao talks about is area.
To be continued...