Chapter 88 War (Part 2)

In the following time, Liu Bowen was like falling into an ice cave.

It seems that I have never had it once in my memory. The court discussion has been so long, and the air in the room is so hot.

But everyone's cheerful voices continued to drill into his ears for a moment, and every sentence sounded despicable and vicious.

"I think that the source of gold is not a problem. When the Mongolians established the country, it was strictly prohibited to inflow of gold and silver. Merchants who exchanged gold and silver must first go to the Municipal Bureau to exchange gold and silver for transaction money before they could use it. The General Administration Office can also refer to this example. From now on, it is prohibited to use scattered gold and silver in bulk transactions. Anyone who comes from Huaiyang, who buys goods from Huaiyang, must exchange gold and silver for coins. In this way, as long as the trade routes in Huaiyang continue, the source of gold and silver will not dry up." Zhang Song, the head of the Interior Department, still maintained the tradition of bureaucrats in the Yuan Dynasty, just solved the problem for his master, regardless of the life or death of the people.

This idea immediately aroused loud opposition from the prefect of Yangzhou Luo Ben. "I think that Zhang's plan is inappropriate. The reason why the vendors are willing to trade in Huaiyang is first of all because of the exquisite goods of Huaiyang, the cheap and sufficient quantity. Secondly, the rules of Huaiyang are simple, and the government never bullies others with power. If they follow the old tricks of the Mongolian Yuan, they will lose the hearts of merchants all over the world. If they continue to do so, the Grand General Administration will suffer."

"Actually, there is no need to worry about not being able to make gold and silver. If I had more mirrors, Bingcui and other things in Huaiyang, and it was stipulated that anyone who traded gold would give me 20% off, and the gold would naturally flow back in a steady stream." Li Mubai, deputy director of the Commerce Bureau, pretended to be a business story, stood up, shook his head and gave Zhu Chongjiu an idea.

"It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate. If there are too many things, it's not worth it. Mirror and Bingcui are both treasures of Huaiyang's mountain-keeping. Never kill chickens to get eggs." Jiao Yu, the head of the Dajiangyuan, knew exactly how much the real cost of mirrors and glass, stood up and refuted carefully.

"I think that the words of Chief Li and Jiao Dajiang are both worthy and inappropriate." Cai Liang, deputy chief of the Industrial Bureau, quickly gave different opinions. "Mirror is indeed my Huaiyang's unique skill. It is not a problem to sell it for a few years. However, Bingcui and glass plates have been shipped from the sea by a large cannibal. Although the quality is worse than that of our Huaiyang, the price is at least half the cheaper. Obviously, the Western countries that the lord often talks about are also well-known to this skill."

"As far as I know, the merchants in Venice began to make variegated glass at least a few hundred years ago, that is, what you call Bingcui." Ivanov, the deputy commander of the Second Legion, stood up, stroked his gray beard, pretending to be wise, but unfortunately his brown hair and fleshy face greatly reduced his image.

"It's Venice again. According to your statement, Venice is more than ten thousand miles away from Huaiyang. The great cannibals travel thousands of miles to transport some ice and green to the road, and the consumption on the light road will be as much as possible."

"Ivan, why can you find anything in the extreme west of your mouth? You are not talking nonsense, anyway, none of us have been to the one you mentioned, that Europa."

A burst of doubts quickly surged around. Except for the Second Legion's own generals, almost all people from other departments were unwilling to believe that what Ivanov was telling the truth.

"I, I am an Orthodox, never, never lie." Ivanov immediately turned red and began to cross himself.

This self-proclaimed aloof action not only failed to establish an honest image as expected, but instead attracted more ridicule and doubt. Especially those who knew him well in Xuzhou had ridiculed him: "Bah, you said last time that there were dragons with wings, specifically catching yellow-flowered daughters to eat."

"There are also Cyclops who throw stones at passing ships."

"I also say that everyone in the world is born by the same ancestor, then wouldn't everyone be brothers and sisters?"

Even though Chinese civilization has experienced a catastrophe, it still has not lost confidence. Therefore, everyone has no sense of respect for the Europa, Orthodox Church and Western mythology in Ivanov. Instead, they feel that this brown-haired and blue-eyed barbarian is easy to make amazing words and that the words they say are not credible at all.

Ivanov was ridiculed and had no choice but to turn his head to ask Zhu Chongjiu for help, "Lord, lord, lord can testify, I, all the things I said, are not nonsense."

Zhu Chongjiu knew that the development level of Eastern and Western civilizations was quickly getting closer to each other, so he waved his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't make fun of Ivan. There are indeed many legends and customs on his side, which are very different from ours."

"Venice has glass, which is true." Ivanov refused to stop, stammered his neck, and emphasized in a muffled voice.

"Indeed, Venice has glass, which was made earlier than our Yangzhou area, many years ago, and our hydraulic forging technique was originally thought of based on Ivan's introduction. In this regard, he and Chief Huang and Jiao Dajiang also made great contributions." Zhu Chongjiu nodded and told the truth.

Ivanov immediately felt that the bones on his body had become made of feathers. He turned his head, looked around for a while, and then sat down slowly, with a proud look on his face, "Whether you believe it or not, the secret of glass cannot be kept for too long. The big cannibal is the most greedy for money. When he finds the huge profits of glass, he will definitely try every means to steal the formula. Even if he can't steal from our Huaiyang, he will steal from Europa. Anyway, it's a matter of time."

Seeing that Zhu Chongjiu was willing to testify for Ivanov, Huang Laowai did not dare to doubt anymore, so he quickly stood up and whispered: "In this way, I think that the output of Bingcui and glass does need to be greatly improved. Before the big cannibal has started, I will sell it to the best. When the big cannibal comes from Europe and get the recipe from the west, the whole country is full of our Huaiyang goods, and he can't even sell it at a high price."

"Yeah." Zhu Chongjiu thought for a while and nodded decisively, "The glass workshop can be opened more. This matter is handled by the Industrial Bureau, the Commercial Bureau and Huaiyang Trading Company. The glass produced must not only be sold to the surrounding area, but also to find a way to transport some to Quanzhou and Guangzhou. The price is considered by the shopkeepers in charge of the affairs there. Don't Dashi merchants like to bring gold to sell goods, and sell the glass to them and then sell it outside of China."

"I will obey the order." Yu Changlin, Li Mubai, Huang Laowai, Cai Liang and others bowed at the same time and agreed in unison.

"The coin making matters are still the same. Don't rush to stop suppressing the gold and gold, nor do you have to change the quality. As for the fact that the capital of our General Administration is to build the credibility of our government. As for the loss of gold and gold, it can be compensated by expanding the sales of commodity." After looking around, Zhu Chongjiu made the second decision.

"I obey the order." Zhang Song, the head of the Interior Department, stood up and bowed his hand.

"As for the next goods sales, I have an immature way. Let's see if it works." After a little consideration, Zhu Chongjiu continued to propose, "Not only focusing on Jingzhou, you can summarize your experience in Jingzhou a while ago, and then aim at Dadu. We have never cut off the canal. The Mongols need to buy grain from the south to subsidize the gap in the north, so since the death of the Biaotuo, we have not tried to block the canal waterway again. In this way, we will sell all the products of Huaiyang, except for mirrors, glass and weapons, at a low price. We would rather make less money and sell the goods to the north in large quantities. This lasts for four or five months. All parts of the canal will definitely be used to using our Huaiyang goods rather than the local goods they make. At this time, we suddenly start stocking up and selling goods, and prices will inevitably be in chaos in the coastal areas."

After accepting Mr. Su's direct advice last time, he has now completely abandoned the simple path of "farming, mining, exploding troops, attacking, farming, and mining again" in his memory, and has always put war in mind.

Without sufficient ability to expand territory, the means of war are not just about fighting on the battlefield. Zhu Chongjiu wanted to learn from various insidious tricks used by countries and countries in another time and space to fight each other and try them all in turn.

"The lord is a great plan." The vision of the civil and military officials was not as broad as that of the information explosion era. They immediately cheered, "Using the method of dealing with Yaharaturu to deal with Dadu, hehe, and repeatedly tossed and tried several times, the Tartar Emperor would never have any money to send troops to attack us."

"I heard from the vendor that we have also learned our spinning and weaving methods there and are making a lot of trouble. We just used Huaiyang goods to come to the door, leaving those who have raised weavers with all their money."

"Good, the richest people in the world are the Mongolian emperors and those lamas. Who will earn if they don't make money?"

There are also one or two experienced and cautious people, such as Lu Luzeng, who reminded carefully, "Did the lord use this plan to be too hasty? Although I, Huaiyang, have only half of Henan, after all, the territory is only half of Henan, while the Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan has thirteen provinces, with a vast land and abundant resources, and rich family."

"The old master said this. If the Tartar emperor could use his power to exert his country, he would have destroyed our Huaiyang long ago. Why should he wait until today?" Chen Ji, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, shook his head and interrupted with a smile. "No one in the Mongolian Yuan court is good at managing wealth. Even if there are people, he can mobilize at most half of the power of the Central Secretariat Province, and there are many elbows in the capital. If he wants to compete with us, he is destined to lose all his money."

"Well, alas." The old general Lu Lu once pondered for a moment and sighed softly. Although Chen Ji's words were full of arrogance, when he thought about it carefully, he was not wrong at all. The Yuan Dynasty seemed to be vast and wealthy, but the power that the court could mobilize was pitifully small. However, although Huaiyang's side had only captured half of Henan so far, he could quickly concentrate all his strength by setting the strategy and defeating his opponents every time.

"In fact, it is not only the low price to suppress local local goods, but we can secretly raise the price to buy anything that is short of local areas, so that the local people will become poorer and the rich will become richer." Seeing that the last opponent was speechless, everyone's enthusiasm became higher and higher, and they spoke one after another, perfecting and supplementing the plan proposed by Zhu Chongjiu from the details.

"The real shortage of grain in the Secretariat is. Although the Kazakhstan organized a large number of people to farm, the effect was not significant. As long as we raise the grain prices in the Huaiyang area during summer and autumn harvests, there will naturally be local merchants who will sell grain south along the canal. When the green and yellow rivers are out of reach, we secretly intercept the grain ships from the north and stock up on high prices."

"It is definitely inappropriate to just get food. The key is to kill all the big deals in the Zhongshu Province that are unwilling to buy our accounts first. When the rest are all in the same spirit as our Huaiyang, we will naturally control them as much as we want."

War is the best touchstone. There is no idiot who can sit in the convention hall of the General Administration at this moment. But everyone did not realize that the business affairs that were usually looked down upon by scholars can actually become a weapon to kill the enemy. Zhu Chongjiu just carefully pushed open a window for everyone. Then, a storm began to brew quickly with the convention hall as the core.

"I have a suggestion, please ask the Grand Chief Executive to consider it. According to Ivan, the church will sell a kind of atonement book in their hometown. Anyone who buys this item will be forgiven after death. The Grand Chief Executive is merciful and does not want to kill prisoners. Therefore, I, Huaiyang, might as well print a batch of atonement book to the generals of the Mongolian Yuan. In the future, anyone who is captured by our army on the battlefield can be freed with this book."

"I heard that the confidant of the Hama school was building a large seaship in Zhigu to prepare for the abandonment of the canal, and then transporting grain from the sea. This caused the price of timber in the north to soar some time ago. The MIIS might as well find a way to send a few patterns of the Dafu ship. After the Hama was built, Yu Tonghai's escort fleet was probably almost done, so he just went to take the big ship back."

"No need to take it, let Hama keep it. When his fleet is full of food and set off, we will suddenly send a fleet to intercept it. The city of Dadu will wait for the grain ships to arrive. If we don't have to worry about the rice price, we will have to fly to the sky."

"Trade is a road, but there is still a way to find a way to be self-sufficient in the issue of copper and gold. As far as I know, Tongling has produced gold, copper and other things since ancient times. Monk Peng owns Baoshan, but he does not know how to manage it. Now Xu Shouhui has established an alliance with me Huaiyang. Why don't you send someone to discuss with Monk Peng? The Huaiyang merchant will fund him to start a mine. If there is a production, the two sides will be divided equally. This will solve my urgent needs. Monk Peng doesn't have to live a tight life."

"There is also Qizhou, which is also a place where copper is produced. Xu Shouhui doesn't know how to manage it, so it's better to leave it to Huaiyang Business Company."

"It's a pity that there is Zhu Chongba in the middle."

"Just relying on what he did, when the Gaoyou appointment expires, the lord can send troops to destroy him immediately."
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