Chapter 62 The New Year
Wang Hua asked the yamen runners to send a large amount of supplies to the migrant workers involved in water conservancy, and also gave them a few days of vacation. Another good news is that the two roads are progressing smoothly. The road to Daozhou is built to Xunzhou, which is the mainstream of Yushui. The road to Kunzhou also crossed the tributary of Yushui, marched towards Panzhou, and then crossed the Nanpan River to build from Panzhou to Kunzhou.
In fact, at this time, Wang Hua's goal had reached. The road to the north, and the construction of the north will have a little help to the Lingnan economy, but it will not help Qinzhou. Since the cargo was transported to Xunzhou, why not go directly to Guangzhou by Yushui? Why go to Qinzhou by land? Therefore, it is helpful to Qinzhou's economy. The roads to the south of Yushui are the roads in the south, which are the relevant prefectures and counties that Wang Hua is now supporting. The same is true for the road to the west, including the north and south Panjiang, Dunijiang and Yushui, which are just one of the five major rivers in this small China. Because of its small population and underdeveloped economy, it has not played its role. Even Xunzhou is already a main road to Yushui, and the ships coming and going are not as many as the ships on Jishui.
Therefore, Wang Hua was not in a hurry at this time.
Just repair it slowly, it will take one or two years to build it. It’s great to stay in Qinzhou, why bother to go to the court to find fault. So I thought about it and called some prefectures and counties to come, "I'll help you build the road, but you have to do manpower." On the original two roads, we will continue to divide six or seven roads and connect them to various places.
This is great. Anyway, this time the people have attracted a lot of people. So on the road to Xunzhou, several forks were separated. They connected Yizhou, Rongzhou, Laozhou, Lizhou, Dangzhou, Baizhou, Lianzhou, and Hengzhou, Yulin, Xiuzhou and Xunzhou, which were originally on the road, happened to be connected to form a dense network. The officials of these states were very happy, but they did not know that the construction of these forks was good news for Qinzhou.
Wang Hua finished the negotiation with the officials of Shushang in front, and a large number of houses in Qinzhou Xincheng were sold later.
Wang Hua began to get Zhu Quan to pay his salary.
Salary cannot be paid randomly, and there are strict regulations, but rewards can be given, such as cloth, silk, tea, porcelain, and even glass brought by big cannibals, spices brought by merchants from various countries in the South China Sea, and five stones.
Very generous.
But the snake swallowed the elephant. The county magistrate of Lingshan County, Xie Xu asked: "Governor Wang, why didn't the court upgrade our state?"
Now there are more than 100,000 people from Qinzhou, so it is reasonable to put it in the Central Plains. Why is it still in Xiazhou?
"Mr. Xing County, how do you say how to upgrade? It was just designated as Zhongzhou. We have added tens of thousands more people. Could it be that the number of people has increased three or four times a year?"
Everyone smiled knowingly and upgraded to level three and four levels. That was not the state, but the governor's office, the third level, the lower level, the fourth level, the central commander's office. But this can only be said behind closed doors, otherwise the officials of the Rongzhou governor's office would be unhappy when they heard it.
Not only Qinzhou, but also the entire Tang Dynasty was also beneficial. If it were not for money, the Tang Dynasty in winter continued to exude the glory of the prosperous dynasty.
No matter what the consequences of cotton bring, it does make people's lives richer. Although the people who benefit the most in this process are the people who should not benefit the least. With money, consumption is also increasing. Trade increases, and there is also a little effect of Wang Hua in the middle. It is not very big, but there must be, such as buying a large amount of money, spending more than three million guan. This drives not three million guan. It is several times the economic development. Some people finally realize the role of coal. At least burning bricks is cheaper than burning firewood, and the bricks and tiles are of better quality.
Even the imperial court began to use butterflies to smel steel.
There are not many ones, but many ten, so the economy has developed very quickly this year.
But a problem appeared faintly.
Because of the bumper harvest, cotton cloth fell to six cents per foot, but the price of raw silk rose. It turned out that medium raw silk only cost eleven cents per foot, but now it has increased to about twenty-three cents per foot to twenty-five cents per foot. This is not like food, and it is not eye-catching. Therefore, silk is not taken out and traded.
As for copper coins, this is the basis of currency. But there is also a problem. The price of silk is rising, the price of meat is rising. The wages are rising. Originally, one could buy a pound of good pork for ten cents, but now it takes fifteen and twenty cents. The price of grain is because the court took action, and Wang Hua transferred more than one million stones of grain into the Tang Dynasty. It has fallen temporarily, and the price is very fair. But that is the court's action. God knows when the court said he would ignore it, and the price of grain will rise again. Of course, it is very cost-effective to hoard grain. The key is the grain coupons, and the transaction volume is dispersed together. With such a low price of grain, who is willing to hand over it?
Therefore, after thinking about it, it is better to turn it into copper ware and sell it, which is more cost-effective than using copper coins.
As a result, a problem soon arises. It is clear that everyone is richer than before. Buying things is generous. Buying things is definitely not a problem. The key is to buy things, and merchants cannot afford enough cash. In the end, many merchants have to issue more flying money and use it as currency. But flying money cannot be distributed randomly. If people don’t have money when exchanging, the trouble will be great. Therefore, customers who use money to buy things smile and sarcasticize customers who sell things.
Some people have no choice but to barter each other. Of course, this primitive transaction is definitely not a solution. However, the problem has not yet emerged, and even the monarch and ministers in Chang'an have not noticed it.
But Wang Hua learned in advance that because he also had a lot of flying money in his hands, he had expected this situation long ago, and would not foolishly stock up the flying money in his hands in order to save the country and the people. Can it be saved? Therefore, the faster he took it, the faster he would get it out, but when he cashed it, he used to take it, but now he is waiting for a few days.
Before we can wait, more people will doubt it. Some people start to dare not use flying money. But flying money is also a currency, and large-scale transactions basically use flying money, which also saves a lot of silk and copper coins. Once the flying money is in crisis, it will cause a shortage of money.
Therefore, Wang Hua's family celebrated the New Year in three places this year. Wang Han and his parents and sister celebrated the New Year in Luoyang. However, Li Hong stayed in Chang'an. Because the subsequent operations required Li Guer's presence, she had to stay in a relationship with Li Guer. Sichuan Zhuang's Gui's family also had a mansion, but they were a little shocked from the palace and simply bought a small garden in Kaihuafang.
When she had just arrived in Chang'an, Li Guer was still asking when she would arrive in Qinzhou.
The price of grain has come down, so I should be able to go to Qinzhou.
Going to Qinzhou? Li Hong was stunned when he heard this. Will the emperor allow it?
She asked Li Guer to sit down, talked about Wang Hua's arrangement, and then said: "Princess, don't reveal it."
Li Guer smiled and said that these families were not good things, and even the princess of the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to marry him. Erlang said that his father had the noblest blood in the world, but they were all good, and they regarded the royal family as trampling people. He clapped happily and applauded.
But this year's New Year, the Tang Dynasty was very lively, and many places began to set off firecrackers. This was the real firecracker, that sound.
But in the past few days, no one has counted how much money has been released. Anyway, one-third of the families have set off firecrackers. The children who have not set off were envious, but when asked about the price, their heads shook, and finally endured the pain, they bought a small skewer.
There were more firecrackers set off in Qinzhou, and the elder of the Wang family looked at him and kept asking: "Mr. Wang, how much money did this firecracker make?
Wang Hua just didn't say it, and he was afraid that he wouldn't sleep when he said it. There were quite a few. Although a normal family only bought two or three hundred cents, and some only bought dozens of cents, how many families in the Tang Dynasty were there? Besides, the rich families were no longer there, and they would be gone when they put out dozens of cents. A small string of firecrackers cost only two or three cents, and sold to direct sellers at least ten cents. This is even more powerful than robbing money. He brought him nearly three hundred cents of income.
There are also major workshops and houses sold in Qinzhou. Qinzhou alone brought him more than 5 million yuan in profits.
Poor Li Hong couldn't sleep all night after hearing this news. Then she remotely sent out the New Year's money. Wang Yi asked him to gamble. However, Wang Hua's mother immediately confiscated more than half of it. The daughter-in-law was making trouble. Wang Hua's mother also had 100,000 silk money. This was for her to buy clothes. What kind of clothes cost 100,000 yuan?
Then each of the three phoenixes and four phoenixes is 50,000 yuan in weight, which is pocket money. It turns out that there is more pocket money than the princess and princess.
In addition, Mo Hegan was given 500,000 yuan in money. Although he did not have Mu Fangli's ambition, Li Hong always felt that the thousands of soldiers of the Blood Character Camp and the operations of Mo Hegan in the southern prefectures in the past two years were very important to Wang Hua.
Mo Hegan did not disappoint Wang Hua's trust. He was a very smart person. Now his future is with Wang Huashuan. Although Wang Hua's scenery is good, he can hold a false position because he is unfaithful to Wei and wants to get greater real power. And Wei's ambition and Li Xian's mediocrity make him vaguely feel that something big has happened.
Therefore, he carefully operated in Dunan and even deliberately found trouble for several officials who questioned them. An official deliberately made a team of soldiers drunk and blocked him at his doorstep for a day to prevent him from coming out. The official appealed without any result. Everyone thought that the soldiers in the Blood Camp were depressed now, but instead ordered the officials not to make things difficult for them.
After hearing this news, no one asked about the long and flat triangle belt of Duzhou in Duzhou and Hezhou. Since I didn’t ask, Mo Hegan also gave some gifts to the relevant officials. It was originally the place where the Tang Dynasty and Tubo bordered, not in the Hexi Corridor, but mainly ethnic minorities. The court used to manage this small place, and it was mainly to comfort the favor and did not take the initiative to cause trouble. Moreover, a Tubo army came to make an idea, and Mo Hegan led his soldiers to strike head-on and escaped like a dog in the water. The scale of this battle was not large, and only hundreds of Tubo people were killed, but it made people realize that the soldiers and reputation of the Blood-Battle camp would be safe and at once. The people in the territory did not dare to cause trouble. The soldiers of the Blood-Battle camp were stationed here, just to protect the Tang Dynasty and deal with the Tubo people?
Therefore, officials in the two states and one city only care about drinking and having fun, and no longer ask about the matter of the Blood-Chief.
If you don't ask, it's easy to deal with. Mo Hegan bought the hearts of the people and secretly cultivated some young French people and trained them. Moreover, he was a Hu person. These French people were not rejected by him. The power of the blood-character camp did not decline because of the cold treatment of the court, but instead grew several times. But all this was based on Wang Hua's continuous remittance of large sums of funds.
Mo Hegan got the money, but did not use it indiscriminately, except to divide it to his subordinates. He gave some to the leaders of various foreign tribes, secretly operated and used various merchants to buy a large amount of supplies. Including the large number of weapons that Wang Hua secretly prepared for them, he also smuggled to the southern part of the ministry and came to their hands. He even secretly asked reliable herders to raise nearly 10,000 war horses for them.
But this was even more secretly, even before Zhu Quan and Wang Hua did not mention it.
Before the New Year came, Li Hong finally gave birth. She gave birth to a daughter. It would be better if Wang Hua was by her side, so she could comfort her. Now without Wang Hua by her side, Li Hong wanted to cry. Look at Li Guer's son, it is so popular. In fact, this daughter is very beautiful. But why is this society generally value boys over girls, and there is no way.
Li Guer also came to visit and comforted her a few words. But after going out, she wanted to laugh to the sky. Zhaolang got better now. No matter who gave birth to a son for Wang Hua, Wang Zhaolang was at least one year older. There is no doubt that he was the head of the Wang family.
When he was happy, he took out Xu Du treasure from the palace and gave it to Li Hong.
Li Hong gave her a blank look, unable to get angry or laugh.
But Li Guer also cared about what Li Hong said and sent his confidants to inquire.
Sure enough, it was a small amount of money, but I didn't tell anyone. When New Year's Day approached, Li Xian invited the ministers to a banquet.
Li Guer also attended. Seeing everyone drinking happily, he asked curiously: "Everyone, don't you know one thing?"
What's going on? Everyone stopped to see the cups of chopsticks in their hands and looked at Li Guer. Li Guer sighed and said, "Father, why don't you let Wang Erlang be the prime minister?"
Such a big event is about to happen, and no minister in the court knows. The same is true for food last year. I don’t know what my father thought.
Before Li Xian could react, Wei remembered it. Eryan Lao said that the second one was that money was not used for eight. Last year, the imperial court had so much taxes, why did the money be gone? It seemed that money was accumulated in the treasury.
The reason why money is accumulated as much as a mountain is a bad thing. Not only in the treasury, Wang Hua and the Wang family in Taiyuan, but also Li Xuejun's father, the copper coins saved by the three parties also exceeded 1,000 stagnant.
In this way, how much copper coins can there be in the market?
Wei didn't understand it. But she still asked, "Guoer, what do you want to say?"
Li Guer originally wanted to say that a group of ministers were idiots, but when he thought of Wang Hua's arrangement, the flying money list had not come out yet, so he refused to say: "It's nothing, nothing, everyone drinks, I wish my Tang Dynasty a good weather and a prosperous country and a peaceful people this year. I also wish my father and mother good health for thousands of years."
The minister was confused and had to stand up and toast.
But Wei took it to heart. After the banquet, he asked, "Guo'er, what do you want to say?"
"My mother, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. No matter how big the problem is, it can be solved."
Wei asked a few more questions, but Li Guer refused to say anything.
But Wei was even more suspicious and thought of Wang Hua's concubine. Li Hong, Wang Hua's family was in Luoyang, but she was alone in Chang'an and did not even go back to give birth. So she called Zong Chuke and other close friends to ask: "My dear friends, have you ever heard that our Tang Dynasty money has gone?"
"There is no money?" Zong Chuke was stunned when he heard this. They were preparing to come to Wei and knock Wei Yuanzhong down. That was interesting to take into account the market conditions, and it was also done by the merchants, so they even disdained it. Zong Chuke asked again: "Empress, what money is no more?"
"No, nothing." Wei suddenly remembered what Wang Hua said before leaving. Never say it to others. Otherwise, there would be no way to solve it. She covered it up and asked Zong Chuke and others to go back. She said to Li Xian: "Does our Tang Dynasty have no money?"
"How is that possible?" Li Xian was wondering about this matter. However, Wang Hua was in Qinzhou again, but he still sent someone to issue a secret decree to ask what was going on. But Wang Hua replied that it might happen, and it might not happen. If it happens, when it is serious, you can solve the problem by asking Li Hong for tips. Please don't worry, put the current state affairs first.
Wei said: "It seems that even Guer seems to hear some wind now."
He called Li Guer again, and the couple asked him, but Li Guer was forced to say helplessly: "I will tell you in a month."
Then it's just one month, and I'll see how the money is gone.
This most noble couple in the Tang Dynasty doesn't believe this evil anymore.
Wei saw that. Some people also saw that Zhang said that he had left the palace with Song Lu and Lao Wei, and that he talked about this. Zhang said that he was not very familiar with the people of the Wang family. However, Song and Lao Wei were familiar with each other. If it was Mu Fangli, the two of them would still be hesitant. The little girl spoke too sharply. But Li Hong had a gentle personality. So he came to visit.
Lao Wei asked: "Li Hong, is something going to happen again?"
Last year, the food battle made Lao Wei speechless. Not only Lao Wei, but also all the important officials in the court were not in the mood to work.
Li Hong said: "It may be something, it may be nothing."
He had the same tone as Li Guer, but Lao Wei heard that it was not that there might be nothing wrong, but that there might be something wrong, and said in a deep voice: "Li Hong, put state affairs first and cannot be concealed."
If it were the little girl who had just met Wang Hua in the past, Old Wei would have really scared her. But how could Li Hong scare him now? To put it bluntly, if you want money, Wang Hua earned nearly half of the entire national tax of the Tang Dynasty. At least one-third of it. This is the good tax situation in the Tang Dynasty last year. If you want people, except for the blood-speaking camp, it is like the Wang family, and there are one million people in Oceania. Even if Li Xian stands in front of her, she will not be afraid.
He shook his head and said, "I don't know, or you can write a letter to ask Erlang."
When writing a letter to Wang Hua, he will definitely reply, because it is not an expedited time for eight hundred miles. It will take at least two months, and things will have happened long ago.
"And Mr. Wei, you should retire."
“Resignation?”
"Yes, take advantage of resigning early, and the more sad the memorial is written, the better."
"Why?" asked the Song Dynasty. Although Old Wei is not in charge now, he still has a sign, and with Old Wei in the court, he has a positive effect. Old Wei fell and the evil danced even more happily.
"Shilarious Minister Song, don't ask why. When the population of Qinzhou is absorbed almost the same, my Erlang will report to promote Qinzhou to the Governor's Office. There is nothing to do, and it's really uneasy to change the people around you. Therefore, you can say to Your Majesty in advance and book that location. Let some people feel relieved, so that they can avoid even them thinking about you."
I went to Qinzhou? Comrade Song was also stunned for a long time. Although the location was a bit hot, it was really hot. Wang Hua might stay for more than half a year or a year. With this time, Qinzhou will become the second most glorious city in Lingnan. Wherever you go, you need money and people.
But if Wang Hua has his political achievements, if other officials do not do well, it will only make people laugh. It is difficult to go. And it is always Lingnan. Even the Song Dynasty has a little bit of a problem.
"Song Shilang, don't worry. My Erlang stays until the end of the year at most, but the development of Qinzhou will last at least two to three years. As long as you don't do anything, you will also achieve political achievements everywhere. But I'm afraid that the officials appointed by the court will do something." It's not Qinzhou, but mainly after this year, because each state has settled a large number of people. The development of each state will once again drive the development of Qinzhou. However, this effect will not be seen until next year. Li Hong's words are not a fool of Song Mu.
"So, can you tell us why Mr. Wei wants to retire and I want to go to Lingnan?" "I don't know," Li Hong said angrily. He pointed it to this point and asked why? Or tell them all Wang Hua's secrets?
The two of them had to leave even more depressedly than Wei.
Chapter completed!