Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

It was hazy and white, and there was fog all around. I couldn't see where it was, but it seemed very familiar here.

An old woman in ragged clothes appeared in front of her eyes, walking slowly in front of her.

Then Luo Mengzi's chubby head appeared in front of him, looked at himself with trusting eyes and said: Brother, for the ambition in your heart, brother will follow you!

Suddenly, their faces were covered in blood!

Guo Shao woke up suddenly, and once again found a strange girl lying beside her. The scar on the corner of her left eye and cheekbone quickly reminded Guo Shao of who it was. He felt that it was difficult to breathe. When he looked around, he saw the red candles flickering, the silk curtains hanging down, the decorations were exquisite, and the red silk quilt seemed to be rich and noble.

"Your Majesty, your hands are shaking." Yuqing also woke up.

Guo Shao took a deep breath and said calmly, "It's nothing, it's just a nightmare."

Yuqing looked at him suspiciously. Guo Shao pretended to be calm and said: "Leading troops to fight and kill too many people, it is inevitable to come to me in my dreams occasionally."

But Guo Shao couldn't sleep anymore... His courtiers often praised him as a hero, but Guo Shao knew very well that his psychological quality was not very good, and he lacked some kind of open-mindedness or the ruthlessness of a king. For example, Cao Cao, the hero, said "I would rather bear the people of the world, than the people of the world bear me", in a blink of an eye he could kill his old friend who warmly entertained him because of a little suspicion. These Guo Shao simply can not do without pressure.

In the early morning, he got up early, changed his clothes, and hurried to Jinxiang Hall. Because today coincides with the "three-day small dynasty", the West Hall discusses affairs in the Yizheng Hall.

Guo Shao didn't sleep well, his head was a little dizzy, the most obvious thing was the bags under his eyes. However, he was able to deal with it calmly in the Palace of Political Affairs, and the twenty or so people who came were all ministers he was familiar with.

Today's topic is crying poor. The Ministry of Industry was rushing to repair the embankment of the Yellow River before the flood season, and was severely short of money; the Ministry of War dispatched food and cloth from various places to distribute the salaries of the Imperial Army and the Guards, thinking that this method would cause great transportation losses and the supervision process would be very difficult. The Ministry of Finance hinted that gold, silver, copper coins, and silk, which were easy to transport, were taken from the imperial treasury to make up for the deficit in the national treasury.

Guo Shao didn't hide it, and said directly: "The internal treasury is out of money."

Prime Minister Fan couldn't help repeating the old saying, first he said how serious the repair of the Yellow River was, and it directly related to the safety of people in Gyeonggi and countless counties, and then he mentioned that he saw soldiers of the Imperial Army drinking flower wine and visiting kilns on the street.

"Generals, you should really go out of the capital and go to the people to see how the common people live and how the soldiers live..."

Shi Yanchao said coldly: "Fan Xianggong, this is the time when you only saw people eating meat, but no one was desperate. Why didn't Fan Xianggong come to the front of the battle line and see what it looks like?"

On this issue, Li Chuyun and Shi Yanchao had no disagreement, Li Chuyun immediately said indifferently: "After returning to the court with His Majesty's class teacher, I have nothing to do and walked around.

Just five or six days ago, Chen saw an old man doing coolies by the Yellow River. Seeing that he was old and weak, he asked him why he didn't let the young and strong in his family come to serve in corvee. What do you think he answered? "

Everyone remained silent, waiting for Li Chuyun to speak.

Li Chuyun said: "The old man said that when you are old, you have children. The eldest son in the family is only twelve or thirteen years old, and he can't bear the pain of building the river; but rich people pay bribes to the county officials. In order to get enough people, the county officials have to conscript poor families like them."

Fan Zhi was furious after hearing this, and said, "General Li, may I ask which county and which official took the money? This official will definitely intervene in this matter personally and punish him severely!"

Li Chuyun said: "Fan Gong thinks that punishing a small official can change the state of officials who are greedy for money and fish for the common people?"

Shi Yanchao smiled and said: "That's a good statement. Brothers followed the official family and escaped death, and receiving the reward is the royal rations taken in an upright manner, which is better than people who secretly fish and meat the common people!"

Guo Shao became a little impatient after listening for a long time. The Ministry of Household minting coins is basically exchanging grain, copper mines, etc. for copper coins, which is a loss-making business; But the coins minted now are completely useless, and the copper coins spent by the treasury are all transported by trucks, and the demand is too great.

He can't make money either. I also realized that the strategy of centralizing |power, strong branches and weak branches has more advantages than disadvantages, but once the old rules of the military system are changed, all aspects will be affected, and there are many problems in implementation.

Since the imperial power and the autocratic power of the imperial court are very powerful, is it okay to not give money to the state's financial expenditure? Of course not, because it is not a slave society now, and people in various industries cannot be forcibly plundered or enslaved for free, otherwise society will regress. Court officials have to spend money to do things.

The ministers couldn't argue about right or wrong, but Guo Shao couldn't say "I can't do anything about it". He is the emperor, so his attitude must be steady.

Guo Shao immediately said: "This matter..."

Everyone's debate stopped, and the Yizheng Hall became quieter for a while.

Guo Shao said calmly: "In the past few years, I have rarely heard of droughts, floods, natural disasters, famines, etc. Generally speaking, the weather has been smooth. Last time Zan Jurun proposed the 'cooked dung method', which greatly improved the harvest. As long as people in the world have food and clothing, everything is not a problem, and there is always a solution."

When everyone heard it, it really made sense. Anyway, everyone can't starve to death, so how serious can it be? Isn't this the reason? Everyone bowed immediately: "Your Majesty is wise!"

"We're discussing politics today, let's go away if there's nothing else to do." Guo Shao waved his sleeves immediately.

When Guo Shao left the table and went to the study, he saw Jingniang waiting there.

Jing Niang stepped forward, took out a piece of metal lump from a cloth bag and put it on the table. Guo Shao didn't wait for Jingniang to open his mouth, he stretched out his hand to pick it up to observe. It was a strange piece, it seemed to be ore, but it was obviously melted metal. He didn't recognize it for a moment.

"This is silver." Jing Niang said.

"Silver?" Guo Shao was a little puzzled, feeling very different, because silver is at least white, and this thing is not too gray.

Jing Niang said: "The things brought back by the Bing Cao Division from Dongdao were bought from Shanyin Road in Dongdao. After the officials of Jiafang Office saw it, they said it was silver, but it was only rough silver. There were silver, lead, copper and other things mixed together, making it poor in color. It may be because the people of Shanyindao in Dongdao are not yet able to refine silver, so that's the case."

After hearing this, Guo Shao was stunned, and asked again: "What kind of mines are there in Shanyin Road?"

Jing Niang looked slightly embarrassed: "I don't know either."

Guo Shao pondered again: "I don't even know how to smelt silver, so the mining technology must be very poor, but if I can produce a large amount of silver ore, it must be an open-pit silver mine. If I dig deeper, I will definitely gain something."

Guo Shao played with the thing in his hand, and for a moment seemed to see a white light in the dark night!

He has no doubts about the Japanese state-owned silver mines. With the development of information in later generations, he saw that the country has gold and silver mountains in nowhere; at this time, the sporadic inquiries of the ancients verified this information again. So Guo Shao felt more reliable.

Guo Shaodao: "You personally meet those craftsmen and businessmen who have been to the East Island, and then report to me. In addition to the news of precious minerals, there are also things like the state affairs, military affairs, population, ships, etc. of the East Island. As long as you can find out, report them all."

Jing Niang clasped her fists and said, "Yes."

Guo Shao stood up, paced back and forth behind the screen, and rubbed his hands together a few times. He was suddenly in a mood of impetuosity, and he was flustered by the temptation... Just when he was so poor, he suddenly discovered that there were mountains of gold and silver; this feeling is like a person who has been hungry for three days and saw a delicious chicken leg, and he couldn't restrain it no matter what.

Money, cash for easy transportation! It can solve many problems of Guo Shao!

Especially the brothers of the Forbidden Army, of course Guo Shao would not listen to some civil servants and reduce their treatment. Two reasons: 1. Those brothers were encouraged by him to serve the country and the people, and brought all kinds of bright and noble righteousness to escape from death and conquer the country. Guo Shao really couldn't bear to treat them badly. Second, the recruitment system and the policy of strong cadres and weak branches that he implemented required sufficient financial support from the center of the imperial court, because he could not entrust people, but he had to give other benefits.

Where did the money come from? It is absolutely impossible to issue paper money! Historically, the adhesive paper of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty’s banknotes of the Ming Dynasty all used failed advanced inspiration to prove that there is no professional financial system, and paper money cannot be used. Establishing credit is also a problem. At the beginning, no one accepts the value of a piece of paper; after a lot of effort is put into establishing credit for paper money, it is easy to destroy it with the current backward system. Anyway, it's a laborious and not very good thing.

Using precious metals, gold, silver and copper to mint coins can solve all side effects. It has value in itself, and it has allowed the world to accept its value for thousands of years.

In Guo Shao's eyes, he seemed to see piles of golden copper coins and white silver coins coming out of the workshop in batches, and they were directly transported to the internal treasury of the state treasury. He was rich and powerful, so he could do whatever he wanted with his future strategies, and use soldiers if he wanted to!

His emotions gradually became agitated. Although he was still calm on the surface, walking around there and doing some trivial movements had already exposed his inner unrest.

Guo Shao turned around and said, "Come here, call Han Tong for an audience."

The eunuch's voice said: "The servant obeys the order."

The power of money is still great, and it can directly affect the military strategy of the entire Daxu Dynasty at once. Guo Shao now feels that Liao and Hexi are not the most urgent opponents. Even the superpower Liao does not dare to take the initiative to provoke Daxu. Firstly, the battle of Youzhou has just been defeated, and secondly, the battle of Pingxia also deterred them. You can take it easy for a while... but to grab gold and silver, but there is no delay!

Guo Shao is short of money every day. According to his personal wishes, he definitely wants to occupy the "Shanyin Road" next month, and dig some from the gold and silver mountains first to solve the urgent need. But it's just thinking about it, and it still takes time to prepare. The key is that Dongdao is too far away from the current Central Plains. The East China Sea is wide and stormy.

But Guo Shao has already made a decision in his heart, and he will find a way to mine.

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(Sorry, the update has been interrupted for two days. It is really easy to get stuck, and sometimes you need to think about it.)