Chapter 294: Click (Part 2)

"Brother Fu, what are you talking about?" Zheng Lang said, looking at Cui Xian suspiciously again.[海官][海官][海][海][海][海][海][海][海][海][海][\hunhu]

Yier took the initiative to explain the reason, and owed her body, saying, "Master Zheng, I came here to think of your song. I heard the prefect say that playing with a pipa is the best. I still remembered it by chance. I tried playing with a pipa. I didn't know if it was right. I heard that the prefect came back and came to visit and give me advice."

Don't get me wrong, I'm just here to ask for the song.

"Sit down, you bounce it."

"I obey the order." I owe my body again, very gentle, very good at observing my face and pretty, Fu Bi pinched Zheng Lang again, that's a good idea, so please accept it. Yier would not disagree. With Zheng Lang's prestige in Hangzhou, no matter which courtesan, he would enter his mansion as soon as he whispered.

Zheng Lang shook his head.

Yier played it in just two sections, and it was soon finished and fell into Fu Bi's ears. He could already hear the difference: "Miss Yi is good at memorizing, and it turns out that he is good at using the pipa."

I heard that using a pipa is good, but Yier doesn’t understand the music and can’t remember it. She can’t change from a zither song to a pipa song. She deliberately praises her.

"Since you can remember, I will give you the third paragraph and click "

Zheng Lang can't play the pipa, but he still uses the guzheng. This section is a long stroke after round. On the pipa, he uses a long wheel finger, not rushing, whether it is buckle or play, it mainly uses wiping, and wipes it with his fingers. The same is true for the guzheng. The fingers wiping the strings one by one, showing the mighty and majestic soldiers.

As for length, there is no strict limit. You can apply it for one minute or two minutes. But you cannot apply it for five or six minutes.

After finishing the wipe, he said, "The third paragraph."

Yier asked, "What about the fourth paragraph?"

“The fourth paragraph is not yet at that time.”

Yier looked at Zheng Lang with confusion.

"Don't look at me. Today is the good news that the ship I sent will come back soon, so I came up with the third section." No, it has nothing to do with this ship, but Zheng Lang has never said the real intention.

"That ship..."

"It's not very helpful to you, but it's great news for your adoptive father."

"Thank you, the prefect."

"Don't use it, not only for your adoptive father, but also for the court."

Yier didn't dare to ask, and didn't dare to stay for dinner, so she stood up and said goodbye.

Fu Bi said, "This little head is really good, smart and sensible."

"There are many sensible girls, but they have nothing to do with me. Do I want to include the good women in the world to the mansion one by one?"

Fu Bi laughed.

After a meal, Fu Bi and his wife said goodbye.

Zheng Lang called Yang Jiujin and Wang Zhi over and asked, "How do I read those books for you?"

This is an important arrangement.

It is not easy to mine these gold and silver safely. Don’t try to attack Japan. The Song Dynasty did not have the strength or courage at all, and cross-sea combat increased the difficulty. We must think of another way.

First of all, keep it confidential, so that they can know how much gold and silver are produced, but not how much gold and silver are produced.

It also needs to be cut off from the source. Zheng Lang came up with a solution. The Japanese like to come to the Song Dynasty to borrow seeds. Some women were pregnant with the Song Dynasty and were not ashamed of the children in the family, but were proud of them. They were often able to become heads of the family. So some women came across the ocean and borrowed seeds in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang's method was to ask Wang Zhaoming and others to hint, bring a group of Japanese people to borrow good seeds, regardless of what kind they borrowed, and then use this reason to issue an edict to strictly investigate the Japanese ships and prevent them from staying ashore. The reason was inconsistent with the ethics of the Central Plains.

Otherwise, there would be no better reason to martial law against Japanese merchants.

I took the initiative to discuss with the Japanese, saying that the court was not happy and provided them with some goods at a cheap price. Don’t risk going to sea. I will send you bargains and you can make a lot of money at your doorstep.

Then I buy land. Anyway, it’s nonsense. If there is any wood, it’s said that the Song Dynasty lacks this kind of wood and found some gold and silver ores. You should know it sooner or later, and make it clear. But you can’t tell the real storage. If you are not wrong, these two mines are the largest gold and silver ores in Japan.

At this time, Japan had gold and silver mines, but the mining technology was backward and the mining volume was very small. Just say that one or two thousand taels of silver could be harvested a year, which was a very high output. The Japanese believed it. If you give a large amount of goods, don’t pay it at one time, pay it in a few decades, pay it once a year, and pay it in one lump sum. With this vulgar and powerful nation, everything can happen, and the value paid exceeds the value of this thousand taels of silver, the Japanese will not easily regret it.

The Song Dynasty was the fastest-growing era of ancient China's technological development. At this time, mining technology was already very developed. For example, the ash blowing method began to appear in silver mines. If you support gunpowder, don't hide it. You are snatching things from others. Get it back quickly. But gunpowder must be made from gunpowder and then transported to Japan to mine it with gunpowder to increase the mining speed.

These two mines are easy to mine and are private to account for a certain proportion.

Once you join the private sector, you will have motivation. The court is not in a hurry, and the private sector will also be anxious. How many people are not worried about snatching wealth in other people's countries? Then it is possible to copy history and pick out most of the gold and silver in 40 or 50 years. The remaining tails are not enough.

There will be accidents. A clever person must be sent to take advantage of the political situation in Japan at this time to instigate them, so that they will not be able to work together. If they are not united, they will not be very strong. They may even use the army and property to make them start wars with each other and deepen hatred.

Therefore, the candidate Zheng Lang wanted had those strange conditions, and Wang Zhaoming could only make up for it. Strictly speaking, it still did not meet Zheng Lang's requirements.

This is an external means.

You must have a strong army within yourself.

The court will send some army, after all, it is a huge wealth and ministers will not object. The main combat power is probably the private armed forces, which are provided by the court to control weapons and arm private forces. This is overseas, and the court will not have too many taboos, and private armed forces are related to their own wealth. Once something happens, they will be more brave when fighting. Moreover, there are trees on the mountain, and when they are mined at the beginning, no one will pay attention to it. A long city defense fortress can be built with abandoned ore and trees to protect it.

However, it is still not enough.

It was caused by the terrain. The Tang Dynasty was not good. Although the Tang Dynasty had more powerful force, since it was defeated by Liu Rengui, the Japanese dug three long trenches in the country, and one passed through Shimao Prefecture. The Tang Dynasty had strong force, and the Japanese were very cautious and would not agree to sell land. The Song Dynasty's weak force reduced the Japanese's defense, which was also a separatist political situation, which reduced the difficulty.

But there is one of the most unfavorable factors. The kings of the Nara period in Japan were in Heikyo, that is, Nara. Heiyo period moved Kyoto to Heikyo. In Kyoto, it was only 500 miles away from Ishimi Silver Mine. It was too close. The local separatist force of the Ishimi Silver Mine, Izumo Kingdom is also the country of knowledge and action of the Japanese royal family. The indigenous people were Sushen people who migrated from the Northeast. They were proficient in mining and gold technology and were also good at metallurgical technology. Izumo Waku is a famous brand product of Japan.

Although there are many separatist forces around and can be used, it is still very difficult. I am afraid that all of these forces will join forces and the royal family will send troops. It will be very dangerous if you stay alone overseas. Baidu Search No pop-up ad txt download

The stronger your strength, the more you will have the capital to speak.

Zheng Lang thought of another place.

Jurchen.

It is not the mature Jurchens of Khitan Liaoyang, but the East China Sea Jurchens living in the lower reaches of the Huntong River. The Jurchens of the Five Kingdoms have nothing to do with Wanyan's tribe. Wanyan has already entered the mainland and is inconvenient to contact them.

These Jurchens are not unified at this time and often kill each other. The Khitan also has loose control over the birth of Jurchens. They are too far away and too poor to be carefully controlled. As long as the tax is completed, it has nothing to do with us whether you kill or not.

Nowadays, no one takes these Jurchens seriously, but Zheng Lang knows the combat effectiveness of these Jurchens.

Later, when the Jin Dynasty fought against the Southern Song Dynasty, he suffered repeated losses. It was not the Jurchens. At that time, there were too few Jurchens, and most of the army were Khitans and Han people, and their combat effectiveness decreased. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Song soldiers was always underestimated, but the Song soldiers were not the weak, so a group of civil servants and eunuchs ruined their combat effectiveness. As the Jurchens, they entered the Central Plains and began to fall into depravity, which was part of the reason. However, the primitive Jurchens were undoubtedly the most powerful army of the era.

This area is very backward again, and it is possible to exchange two broken bowls and one iron pot for prisoners from the defeated tribe as slaves.

If two or three thousand Jurchen slaves were exchanged for an army, the silver mine could be said to be able to rest assured. Moreover, this powerful army could activate the combat effectiveness of other armies and greatly increase the strength of the entire garrison.

The problem of language barrier is easy to solve. The Goryeo people have many interactions with the Jurchens. Please ask for a few translations to solve the language problem. However, the person who comes to the office must be brave and not be afraid. He must be wise and adaptable. He must have a certain military level. A group of Jurchens led by Wanyan Aguda is invincible in the world, and a group of Jurchens led by Fan Yong may not even win the last Tubo.

So in recent years, Zheng Lang has been cultivating the Wang brothers and the Yang brothers.

He taught them to read some words, asked them to read Zuo Zhuan, and the books of the military strategists and military strategists, and asked them to observe the garrisons in Hangzhou.

The troops sent by the court had their own commanding generals.

However, Zheng Langhui requested the court to set up two foreign troops to garrison them, and use the purchased slaves to arrange two armies, and the two armies were handed over to Yang Jiujin and Wang Zhi to lead them.

After coming up with this plan, Zheng Lang vaguely felt that the Jurchens' role was not only this, but also that the court could recognize the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens in advance, avoiding the incident of the maritime alliance in the future, or otherwise.

It's still early, so I didn't think much about it.

The Ripekale Gold Mine is easy to handle. In Kagoshima, the southernmost part of Japan, Japan hardly manages this place during the Heian era. There are some forces in the local area, and they are not very powerful. As long as you send an army to it, you can rest assured without any arrangements.

The huge and exquisite goods and powerful army can not only ensure the safety of the two mines, but also obtain a large amount of cheap labor through war or goods. At this time, many forces in Japan were separatist and had no concept of a country. There were more prisoners of war, which were important sources of labor.

The negotiation is easy, but the difficult thing is to look for ore. The map I drew was very detailed, and the error would almost not exceed thirty miles. But even if it was thirty miles, how many mountains and how many ridges were there? Therefore, Zheng Lang could not master this time.

Until today, he was relieved.

This is the first step, and the second step is copper.

The Northern Song Dynasty alone cast copper coins for more than 50 million guan and more than 10 million guan. If private coins were added, the copper coins left behind in the past were nearly 100 million guan. There was also a large amount of gold and silver circulating as quasi-currency. There were also paper money. If you didn’t convert these metals out, you would start soon. First, you issued millions of guan a year, and then tens of millions of guan a year. During the reign of Emperor Lizong of Song Dynasty, you issued a maximum of 650 million guan a year.

The paper money is too numerous, and the minimum ratio of paper money to copper coins is 20 to 1, but the actual value of the currency in circulation is hundreds of millions of silos. There are silk and grain instead of currency transactions.

If the metal currency is sufficient, all of them will meet the huge economic output of the Song Dynasty and the money used by neighboring countries, at least 2 billion guan, or even 3 billion. This is only money, as well as utensils, jewelry, Buddha statues, and Wang Anshi's reform failed. If Wang Anshi's reform was more thorough and did not encounter natural disasters, he would succeed in the reform and the economy entered a virtuous cycle, and the amount of money would increase by 1 billion guan. In addition to other expenses, the amount of gold, silver and copper would have to be increased by three times to meet the needs.

Therefore, Zheng Lang would not worry about the excessive metal mining, which would lead to a flood of money. It is not that there is too much, but that it is not able to supply it.

But don’t worry, take this most critical first step first.

Yang Jiujin and Wang Zhi answered honestly: "Doctor Zheng, we don't understand many things."

"Okay, from today on, if you don't understand something, use strokes to draw and mark them, I will take the time to guide you."

"Thank you Dr. Zheng."

"No need to thank you. Although I have given you a path to promotion, there are many dangers."

"We are in danger of wealth and honor." Yang Jiujin replied with his head held high and his chest raised.

"Well, if you really want to be rich and honored, then I will write the four words to your father, and it will be effective," Zheng Lang said with a smile, and then let them go.

Cui Xian walked over with Zheng Ping in her arms and asked, "Official, I don't understand something."

"There are other things you don't understand?"

"Don't joke with my concubine, I'm serious."

"Ask."

"When Yier left, I kept it, but I didn't. But after leaving, she looked for you several times. What was she thinking?" Cui Xian didn't believe it. Even though she loved it like life, Zheng Lang had not finished compiling this song, so she was so anxious to ask for it?

Zheng Lang smiled: "Xian'er, you didn't say you wanted to accept her at that time."

"I said this, but I can't guess it."

"I don't plan to take a concubine either, why do you have to guess? I don't move my heart, let the flag move the wind?"

"I'm not jealous."

"Don't worry, listen to me, and have no mind to care about her."
To be continued...