Originally, Li Ding advised the elders of Luoyang to go back, but these elders were all "ill". The youngest old guys were all over 60 years old, and Li Ding didn't dare to use force, so he reported to Wang Ju. Of course, the most embarrassing thing was Wang Ju. If these old guys didn't leave, what was the imperial edict?

Later, Fu Bi's death broke out and Fu Bi's letter, Li Ding dared not say anything, and even hurriedly checked the gentry and quickly returned to the capital. It was not until Wang Ju went crazy that these old guys in Luoyang became scared.

However, they really don’t want to leave Luoyang, not mentioning any gatherings. Luoyang is the Xidu of the Song Dynasty, and it is so prosperous. But what can I do when I return to my hometown? Besides, what should I do with the super luxury mansion built by Wang Gongchen? What should I do with this luxury mansion when I leave?

Sima Guang wrote a letter, Your Majesty, you ordered the old minister to write a book in Luoyang, but this book, which is millions of words, cannot complete this task by the ministers and his staff. And it is also the instructions of the late emperor, so the old ministers ask Wang Gongchen and others for help.

We are leaving, what should I do with this historical book?

In ancient times, it was highly valued by history, and it was considered an important literary merit. After hearing this, Zhao Xu had a headache and consulted with Wang Ju.

Of course, Wang Ju knew that Sima Guang's history book was important, but did you need Feng Shenji and others to revise this history book? But at this time, Wang Ju also heard some rumors, that is, Gao Taotao from the palace came forward in person and pleaded for Sima Guang and others.

Can't really be strong.

Wang Ju had no choice but to say that if he was involved in the revision of this historical book, he would stay in Luoyang and at least give himself a step. Otherwise, everyone would take this as an example and would not listen to the orders given by his own. He also said that it is okay to revise the historical book, and he should not discuss the affairs of the court again.

Wang Ju weighed the importance of the matter. He took a step back and could not advance, otherwise he would completely anger Gao Taotao. But this retreat was undoubtedly the thorn always stuck in Wang Ju's throat.

"Why did Sima Junshi have to make things difficult for Zi'an?"

"There are many reasons." Wang Ju said briefly, but it turned into a simple sentence, and did not make plans for each other.

Zhang Shi pondered deeply.

"Brother Hui, if you think it through, please read a few articles by my mentor. Indeed, this country needs some hierarchy, no hierarchy, no hierarchy, no authority, no order, but the hierarchy in my heart is different from the hierarchy of Sima Guang. Or put it this way, the world in Sima Guang's eyes is either black or white, but Brother Hui, open your eyes and see how many real black and white are there in this world?"

In his previous life, there was an excellent novel, "Ordinary World", and the heroine died. When he saw something, he wanted to scold her.

However, if you think about it seriously, this is the real ending. If the heroine is still alive, can she really be combined with Sun Shaoping?

Not to mention anything else, it is to marry my sister to the Gao family. The Gao family may be happy, but they are more afraid of worrying. At least they will make the Gao family feel white in their hair for the betrothal gift. The Gao family is still a family of officials...

Although classes are everywhere, can the upper class do whatever they want? This is the real difference between Wang Ju and Sima Guang's ideas.

"Brother Husband, don't get involved in these dirty things. Let me solve them."

Zhang Feng smiled bitterly, the word "dirty" was used a little too much. But politics is definitely not that bright.

After eating and drinking, Zhang Shi returned to the inn.

The next day, Wang Juze took him to see the cannon.

There are two types of artillery, one is large artillery and the other is small artillery.

Its power and lethality are approximately equivalent to the red cannons in the late Ming Dynasty, and are not as good as the red cannons in the Qing Dynasty. However, unlike the red cannons in the Ming Dynasty or the enhanced red cannons in the Qing Dynasty, many new changes have appeared in it.

This change should be gratifying. Although the red-clothed cannons in the Qing Dynasty were more powerful and had strong explosive power, they had many limitations, such as being good at siege, being clumsy in field battles, and being slow to load and fire because they deliberately seek big and strong, and the cannon body was bulky. Although it was large and strong, they still cast the cannons with mud, resulting in a large number of trachoma and frequent explosions of the cannons. Even some of the accurate and accurate gazes that appeared in the Ming Dynasty disappeared. So although the red-clothed cannons in the Qing Dynasty were very large, the largest one could fire super shells of more than ten kilograms, and their actual artillery operation skills were not as good as those in the Ming Dynasty!

Even Wang Ju didn't know about these, including the detailed cannon casting techniques, he didn't know about them, but he had some knowledge.

Under his guidance, this kind of artillery was similar to the combination of the Red and Barbarian cannons in the late Ming Dynasty and the European field cannons of the same era. The pipe wall was thicker, the cannon body gradually became thicker from front to back, with a large diameter, so that the range was longer and it was not easy to explode. In addition, crude sightseeing equipment was also installed, and gun ears were placed on both sides, which were easy to be mounted on the cannon cart and adjust the angle.

The biggest difference is the flowering bullet. In fact, the flowering bullet in the Ming Dynasty was still a solid bullet. There was no gunpowder inside, but it was mainly cast iron. Therefore, it would cause fragmentation after landing. The rebound force caused the fragment to burst, so the lethality was stronger than the bounce of the solid bullet to hurt people.

But this kind of artillery uses real flowering bullets.

Because of this, the other side has developed it for nearly ten years and burned countless money. Although its range may not be as good as that of the red cannon, its lethality is not worse than that of the red cannon, and its operation is more flexible and accurate. At the same time, it is not as bulky as the red cannon.

In addition, it is the small cannon similar to the Folang machine cannon, which is the field cannon that is truly used for field combat.

After testing their power, Wang Ju said: "Around the end of next year, I will provide you with one hundred cannons and two hundred small cannons."

“Can you have a little more?”

"Brother Zhifu, do you know how much a cannon cost? How much a cannon cost?" Wang Jule said.

But there are so many. Think about how beautiful the picture will be when the three hundred cannons are activated.

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"Your Majesty, I want to see you off to my teacher." Wang Ju said.

Zhao Xu hesitated for a while and could not refuse. Zhang Zai was not Wang Ju's biological father, but Wang Ju's mentor respecting his teacher and respecting the truth is also an extremely important ethics. Moreover, Zhang Zai and Wang Ju have half of their body and half of their father and half son.

He nodded: "Go and go quickly."

There are too many things going on during this period.

Wang Ju also knew it, but fortunately, there was no such thing as giving advice to his teacher Ding You at this time, otherwise it would be miserable.

Wang Ju went to Guanzhong.

Zhang Zai has not been buried yet and is waiting for Wang Ju and Zhang Gui to come back.

When the two of them are here, then let's get buried in peace.

With the help of Wang Juzhi, Zhang Zai's academy has become a bit large in recent years, and countless disciples have been taught, and seven students have successively passed the Jinshi.

So there are many people attending the funeral on this day.

Of course, no one has the attention of Wang Ju, whether it is a good judge of him or a bad judge of him.

Guo cried bitterly.

Wang Ju looked at the new grave, but his heart was filled with emotion. People were about to die, and in this era, there were very few people who lived a long life. In fact, he didn't know that it was because of him, otherwise Zhang Zai would have died five or six years ago. Wang Ju didn't think about this. He was just reflecting that he had done so much, but death was like a lamp that was gone, and it was still the same after death?

This is the case, and it is inevitable that you will feel a little depressed.

The autumn wind blew, and the cornflower swayed in the wind with a sad figure. Wang Ju came to Guo and asked, "Master's wife, the teacher has left, what are you going to do?"

"Giant, I don't know either." Guo wiped his tears and said.

"It's better to bring Brother Yin to the capital," Anyway, I will come to Shaanxi the next year, and the house in the capital is also empty. It means I will never live in that house again, so it's better to hand it over to my master's wife and junior brother, but Wang Ju didn't say it.

"I want to go back to my parents' home in Nanyang."

"That's fine," Wang Ju did not persuade him again. It would be better to go back to Nanyang, and the Northern Song Dynasty would be safe, and the capital would become more and more prosperous, but something happened to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the capital would be a fire pit first.

"Jiu'er, your mentor asked me to bring you a word before his death, killing less. Killing is not the kingly way."

"Master's wife, I only killed six people. The rest is just a matchmaker. If I want to kill someone, how can I say ten thousand times?"

A commercial tax of 10,000 yuan is worth at least 200,000 yuan. How many such transactions can occur in the entire Song Dynasty? This is a joke that was deliberately laid down to reduce murder.

But why did you still kill someone? It’s a place, a gold and silk shop in the capital!

The trade with the Song Dynasty this year increased to more than 11 million yuan, not including various donations. However, this amount is still weaker than the transaction volume of the gold and silk store.

Think about how much gold, silver and cloth had to be used every year in the Song Dynasty. The cloth alone would reach hundreds of millions of pieces. Therefore, each transaction in a gold and silk store often reached hundreds of thousands of coins and millions of coins. However, the power behind it was complicated, and money and goods transactions were not the same. It was built in a gold and silk store. The location of commercial goods transactions was in various parts of the country, and it was difficult to check the accounts. It might have stimulated the development of trade in the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty did not receive a single penny of commercial tax.

After the tax on Qi Shang, Wang Ju's first target was Jin and Silk Store. In order to prevent collusion between officials and businessmen, Wang Ju himself took the economic people from the other side to check the accounts himself.

During the accounting clearance process, Wang Ju sentenced six people to death, fifteen people to abort, and some people were beaten and cannoned. Anyway, everyone knew that Wang Ju was crazy and no one dared to impeach. But because even the gold and silk business had to take the knife, other merchants began to be honest.

But some powerful people are shameless and exploit loopholes in the edict. In order to reduce taxes, they even publicly win over small and medium-sized vendors. If you pay a little "protection fee" and place it in my name, you can exempt half of the commercial tax. In fact, it will be more than half. When calculating the value of commercial goods, it will also reduce part of it. It can only be said that the court can barely collect 40% of the commercial tax.

Therefore, the Zhuqian, which caused the commercial tax, to drop by 20%, was expected by Wang Ju, and he even intended to use this to exchange for the compromise between the powerful and powerful literati and officials. Although the Zhuqian has decreased, the total amount has surged. Therefore, the total amount of commercial tax this year may reach 18 million guan. This is the first year, and the commercial tax amount will be more in the coming year.

However, Zhang Zai was also kind-hearted. Killing is not a solution, it is nothing more than deterrence. There are many ways to deterrence, and using killing to solve it is the most radical way. So before his death, he instructed Guo and asked Guo to hand over this sentence to Wang Ju.

But Wang Ju was speechless. Although he gave these people a room to compromise, there have been many disputes over the past few months for this equitable tax. Even if there is a compromise, he is not willing to give up.

Strictly speaking, I will come to Shaanxi the next year. If I don’t kill, I will only exile, and even punish them only for scapegoats and economic personnel. I don’t have enough deterrence. Once I leave, I might be restored in a few years.

Wang Jue was the ritual of half a son, and after presiding the funeral for Zhang Zai himself, he immediately rode back to the capital.

There are still many things.

First of all, interest rates are raised. Each year, each deposit is floating by one cent, which means a hundred jin of money. Now the annual interest rate can reach four jin!

This is also caused by insufficient currency.

150 million stalks of silk were distributed, but they still could not leverage the economy of the Song Dynasty and did not meet the demand for the Song Dynasty's currency. Therefore, almost most of these silk trades were circulated in the hands of the people's merchants. Even the old friends continued to circulate.

However, the court cannot issue Jiaozi randomly. Last year, merchants on Jingdong Road cashed in large quantities of gold and silver. This spring, a large amount of gold and silver cashed in again on Chengdu Fu Road. It cannot be said that merchants violated the law, because the court allowed the people to do this, otherwise how to establish the prestige of Silk Jiao?

But in this way, gold and silver will have a crisis, gold and silver will have a crisis, and silk exchange will also have a crisis. Although these two cashings were suppressed by the banking department, it is also a wake-up call.

In fact, what the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty didn’t know was that for the sake of gold and silver, the other side sold a large number of workshops and pit mines. However, this was not the solution. How did the economic volume of the other side compare to the economic volume of the Song Dynasty?

However, there is a lack of money and loans for each business.

By the end of August, the deposits of money and silk in each bank were only more than 40 million guan, and the loan amount was only equivalent to 80 million guan, copper coins and grain. Don’t ask about the difficulty of lending, all of them were put down. It’s nothing, and the interest rate was too low. Think about the minimum amount of private usury in the Song Dynasty was six cents, while the interest rate of each bank was only one cent. What is the difference? At least, the bank’s business will not make a profit.

So this edict was made.

In fact, the people not only pay the new silk, but also the copper coins issued over the years. The amount has reached more than 150 million guan. There are also a large amount of gold and silver, and gold and silver can also be deposited, but the interest payment is not gold and silver, but silk payment.

If most of these scattered money is collected in the banking department, the banking department can lend more than 150 million guan a year. It can even reach more than 200 million guan in the future. Without mentioning other income, income from interest alone will be scary.

Zhang Shangying expressed his objection: "Taibao. If so, once more people save money in the future, as much as 300 million guan, then a cent of interest will have to be paid for 3 million guan. And the loan money may not be fully recovered..."

"Tianjue, mainly because the people do not fully believe in the banking department now, and are not used to depositing money in the banking department. At the same time, the various business operations have not been popularized. When they get used to it, the interest of the banking department can be transferred."

“That’s not due to its credibility?”

"Tianjue, have you not seen their benefits? After it can continue to implement safely for three or four years, will the court rely on it? Not only will the court rely on it, but many merchants will also rely on it. At that time, what's the harm in making some subtle adjustments?"

The other dozens of bigwigs did not make any noise.

How many benefits are there? A year has passed, and now we can see that the 80 million yuan loan is used in some strange places, and may even be transferred to usury by some merchants. Wang Ju didn't ask. Although this practice is hateful, in fact, due to the popularity of banking departments, the interest rate of various private usury loans has dropped. At least 300% interest and some unscrupulous daily and monthly interest rates are getting smaller and smaller. This is still the insufficient amount of silk payments, and various business operations have not yet been popularized, otherwise the blow to these unscrupulous usury will be even heavier.

This is one of them. The remaining money is mostly used to buy various industries, such as operating pit mining workshops, or for other investments, or directly for merchants. Although the commercial tax is not fair, under the adjustment of Wang Ju, only one tax is levied in a state, only two taxes are levied along the way, and only three taxes are levied across the country. At most, it is a little higher when valuation is levied. However, the clerks of various affairs dare not do too much under the new law, so various trades have gradually become more prosperous.
To be continued...