If Jiaozi doesn't have any problems, it is indeed very convenient. Now mining and metallurgical technology are very backward. Even under the promotion of Zheng Lang, the Song Dynasty produced only 30,000 tonnes of copper per year, and the iron produced only 100,000 tons, which is an amazing progress. In history, the highest peak of copper production in the Song Dynasty was only 10,000 tonnes, and the iron was only 50,000 tonnes and 60,000 tonnes.

Metals have other uses. Therefore, insufficient currency is not only the confusion of the Song Dynasty, but also the confusion of Khitan, Goryeo, Japan and Xixia. Jiaozi appeared, which resolved the crisis. However, if we did not prepare relative metal reserves like the Song Dynasty, serious disasters would occur behind the convenience. In history, the collapse of the Song Dynasty's currency system and the collapse of the Republic of China coins are all the best examples.

Therefore, Zheng Langning, the development of the bank was slow and did not relax metal reserves. There was also a shareholding system. The Western Xia imitated and adopted it one by one, which was the shareholding system. However, compared with the profits of the entire Song Dynasty, the Liang family's shareholding system only made profits for the Liang family, just like the four major families in the Republic of China later, the so-called national bank was better than the Song family bank.

It is not a fault that the people of Xixia do not have vision and do not understand it in the Republic of China, and the current Xixia is now.

Nowadays, metal currencies are generally valued very much. Jiaozi has a reputation as money. Even in the Song Dynasty, because the issuance volume is strictly controlled, Jiaozi's value is slightly above metal currencies, but without Jiaojin it is just paper, just a piece of silk and a piece of lambskin.

After getting the news, the Song Dynasty was living a happy Lantern Festival, but long queues were lined up at the doors of various banks in Xixia.

What does more than 50 million shreds mean to Xixia?

In history, the Northern Song Dynasty's national income was generally more than 100 million yuan, and it turned into less money, but it accounts for more than 60% of the world's income. That is, the entire world's national income is less than 200 million yuan per year. Under the promotion of Zheng Lang, the Song Dynasty now had to account for at least 80% of the world's income. The Song Dynasty only issued 500 million yuan of Jiaozi, and part of Jiaozi was circulated abroad. The Song Dynasty was still insufficient in currency, and many regions continued to use barter due to currency problems. But this was the Song Dynasty, not the Western Xia. In terms of economic scale, at this time, at least twenty countries in the world's economic scale was larger than that of Xixia. Even if Hehuang and Tubo were unified, they were better than the poor Xixia. Even Goryeo and Jiaozhi were not inferior to Xixia in terms of military affairs, and only in terms of economic foundation.

Compared with the population, the Song Dynasty had more than 20 million households at this time, and the Western Xia had only 700,000 households, one-thirty-one of the Song Dynasty. Not to mention that the Song Dynasty was very rich, even if it was about the same. The more than 20 million households owned only more than 500 million Jiaozi, while the more than 700,000 households owned Jiaozi, but the more than 50 million Jiaozi, the more than 700,000 households owned Jiaozi.

But within a few days, because there was not enough metal currency, all the more than 50 million Jiaozi turned into a piece of white paper. It is still possible to rescue the market. If all the nobles took the initiative to hand over the gold and silver, quickly gathered 20 million gold and silver, and the bank's reputation recovered, the crisis would be resolved. But the nobles saw that the price of Jiaozi fell sharply, and were willing to take out gold and silver to overcome the crisis for the country? Also. The attack happened so quickly that even the nobles of the Western Xia were so patriotic, and they had no time to respond.

As the news came out, all the copper coins and gold and silver in the bank were exchanged, empty. In fact, this strategy was too ruthless. Of course, the most ruthless one was not this strategy, but the continuous wood in the eastern sea.

The richer the Song Dynasty, the more wood was used. The more severe the damage to the mountains and forests in Japan was, but they had nothing to do with the government, and they were all private transactions. Either the Ping An Supervision Department had a full account of the official nature.

Before the first month was over, the ratio of Jiaozi and copper coins of Xixia reached 100 to 100, which means that in the past, Jiaozi could only be exchanged for ten cents. This ratio was less than one fifth of the issuance cost. But in this ratio, Jiaozi in hand could not be exchanged for copper coins. More than 50 million bamboos almost affected all classes of the entire Xixia country, and even the Song Dynasty. The relationship between the two countries was not very good in recent years. Most of the time, the Song Dynasty cut off the annual gifts and closed the trade. However, many merchants among the people were greedy for profit and smuggled the Song Dynasty's goods to Xixia, so they also had some Xixia Jiaozi in their hands. In just half a month, these Jiaozi turned into a small broken sheepskin.

What the scholars and officials saw was the collapse of the Western Xia economy, but they had not thought about the seriousness. As Jiaozi lost their credibility, prices began to rise. First, a piece of silk changed from more than 2,000 pieces to 20,000 pieces, then 200,000 pieces, and then 500,000 pieces to 1 million pieces. Finally, they had copper coins in their hands, and they could only buy a piece of silk for more than 10,000 pieces. The entire Xixia business returned to the primitive society. All workshops and market shops went bankrupt one by one, and the wealth in the hands of the heads of various tribes shrank, and even became nothing.

Fortunately, the economy of Xixia was not very developed, otherwise it would be this time that the Song Dynasty would not have to send troops, and Xixia would have destroyed its country.

However, the crisis still exceeded the imagination of many ministers of the Song Dynasty. Even if the business collapsed in Xixia, the impact would be very far-reaching. Even if the simplest people bartered, they might not be able to satisfy themselves. Moreover, Xixia was not rich in products, and many daily necessities had to be supplied from other places. However, in just over a month, Xixia began to march into primitive society.

There were also talents in Western Xia. Seeing the current situation, Li Qing thought of some changes in the Song Dynasty and advised Liang and Li Bingchang: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, the country suffered a great disaster, and the Song Dynasty changed its camp into a regiment, a regiment into an army, and transferred Zhang Yu to Lanzhou. I think the Song Dynasty would mostly have plans without any clues."

At this time, Liang was furious and was very upset after hearing this. He said angrily: "Does the Ai family even be afraid of Zhang Feng?"

It’s not that Liang is not smart, on the contrary, this is a very smart and capable woman, but she is in power, not military. Liang Yi buried the command on the front line. In order to hide his failure, he tampered with the truth, which further affected her judgment. She valued Zheng Lang and Wang Shao, but she may not be too obsessed with Zhang Yue.

Li Qing smiled bitterly.

In the Battle of Ancient Weicheng, he was always on the front line. The prime minister of the Song Dynasty, like the Battle of Dingchuan Fort, handed over the power of Xia Kingdom to Di Qing, and this time he handed over to Zhang Qing, and delegated power even more. In other words, Zhang Qing's military capabilities may still be above Di Qing, and at least equal to him. But who can believe it?

He still advised: "Empress Dowager, I think it's better to be careful and strengthen the alertness of Liangzhou. At the same time, I sent envoys to the Song Dynasty and allocated the two states of Suilan to the Song people."

On the diplomatic line, Li Qing and Wei Minglang met the same encounter. With the strength of Xixia, it would be better to have a good relationship. The two countries would be safe and benefit the people, otherwise the war would never end. In history, it seems that their idea was not very correct, but if the conservatives did not come to power, Tong Guan would then greedy for the prince to turn the spearhead and attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Now Li Qing still has this diplomatic concept. Anyway, Lanzhou and Suizhou cannot be taken back, so it would be better to hand them over to the Song Dynasty legitimately.

There were belligerent factions in the Song Dynasty and Gouhe factions. If they formally stated that they would not want the Suilan Prefectures, Gouhe factions would have the upper hand. The Song Dynasty could not use troops to the Western Xia unanimously. Then, the crisis would be resolved for two years.

However, the Liang family became even more furious. It was the Liang family's original intention to use troops to the Song Dynasty. Now that Gouhe, the royalists will definitely have the upper hand, and their status with the Liang family will be in danger. Therefore, they shouted loudly: "Li Qing, you are originally a Qin. Can you flatter the Song people with your country!"

Li Qing didn't dare to speak anymore. In the ager of Liang, he immediately thought of a word, death.

Xixia was in chaos, and I believe it angered Liang. She would never mind killing herself to establish her authority.

Then he thought of Liang Yi's incompetence and autocracy. If Liang Yi had not buried the autocracy and let Li Kaitai replace Liang Yongneng, would the Xixia's right-wing army be wiped out? Then could the Song Dynasty successfully form an encirclement? However, on the contrary, because Liang Yi's defeat in the Huluchuan Battle, Li Kaitai successfully saved all his subordinates, and the Liang family hid Li Kaitai even more.

Thinking of this, he lowered his head.

The murderous aura in Liang's eyes appeared. When he saw him admit defeat, the murderous aura in his eyes disappeared.

Two days later, Li Qing found another person, Feng Gao, but his name was Li Yan at that time. At that time, the six rebel generals of the Song Dynasty, Wu Zang Qing did not regret it. He followed Wu Zang Epang all the way to the black, and was "shot" by the Song people. The other five were headed by Li Yan, loyal to the late emperor and made many military achievements. After Li Liangzuo's death, the five generals were loyal to the royal family and were hidden by the Liang family. After many years, the five generals were old and Li Huangzhu died, but the other four generals still had prestige in Xixia.

The four generals were excluded and felt sorry for each other. They continued to be led by Li Yan, but the four generals were walking on thin ice every day, cautious. Seeing that they were very honest, the Liang family did not take any action. Li Qing found Li Yan and said, "General Li, the country of Daxia is in danger."

Feng Gaoyi waved his hand and said, "General Li Qing, I am a slave of three surnames and I don't want to be a slave of four surnames. Besides, I am nearly seventy years old and the power of the Great Xia country has nothing to do with my ministers."

The three surnames refer to the original pseudonym first surname, the second surname is Wukang, and the third surname is Li.

Everyone did not say it clearly, but Feng Gao directly rejected Li Qing's invitation.

Li Qing was afraid of Feng Gao's complaint and dared not persuade him again.

But the truth is...

Feng Gao then spread the news to the court.

The matter in Xifu has nothing to do with Zheng Lang, but to prevent the news from being revealed, the secret service camp was taken over directly by Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu received the information and called Zheng Lang, saying that Wei Yang died, and the losses were heavy, and the future was immeasurable. Li Qing had less influence than four scouts in Xixia, but his name was less than real power, but he had more than four scouts. He had many troops in his hand. Li Qing was dissatisfied with the Liang family, which seemed to be an opportunity.

Zheng Lang read the information, shook his head, and said, "Your Majesty, Li Qing is disgusted with the Liang family. If it is not Xixia, he cannot be comforted."

"This person is a tiger general."

"Yes, he went to Xixia as an ordinary Guanzhong family and gained the title with his military merits. How could he not be a tiger general? But this tiger general is hard to use for our dynasty, but this is an opportunity," Zheng Lang lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked Zhao Xu to write two short letters in person.

The first letter was written to Li Qing: General Li Qing, I heard that you are kind and friendly with me in the Song Dynasty, but the evil in Xia State is in power and will never be able to do so. If the Lord of Xia is in charge of national power and is loyal to China, I will restore the annual gifts, reopen the trade, and save the people of Xia State from water and fire.

If you have the ability and take back the power from the Liang family, our Song Dynasty will help you through the difficulties of Xixia. It seems... It is, when the Western Xia fought against the Khitan, the Song Dynasty helped him with all his strength. When Wuzang rebelled, Di Qing rescued him and then handed over the six prefectures to Li Liangzuo for free.

This letter was sent by Zhou Yuan to send a scout to Li Qing. Zheng Lang ignored what Li Qing thought.

There is another order written to Feng Gao, who can exchange military power and sell Li Qing!

The inside story is only known by Zheng Lang and Zhao Xu, but the situation in the Western Xia Dynasty was heard by many scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty temple. They all thought that the Song Dynasty's economy was incomparable to Western Xia. It was impossible to use external forces to leverage the Song Dynasty's economy. However, the Song Dynasty's business was developed, and the proportion of urban people was almost 20%. Commerce supported more than half of the economic income of the Song Dynasty. Once a similar economic crisis was developed, the consequences would be even more serious.

The collapse of the Western Xia economy further reflected the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

At the end of February, the report of the Sansi Department stated that the economic income of the Song Dynasty reached more than 194 million yuan this year, of which the income of the joint ventures and the state's supervision reached nearly 82 million yuan, the money of Fangchanghe River was nearly 8 million yuan, and various commercial taxes were more than 22 million yuan, excluding other industrial and commercial income and salt and wine franchise, the direct industrial and commercial income accounted for nearly 70% of the Song Dynasty's income, and the amount of the two taxes was still very large. However, many were grain and grass, and the money was converted into scattered only equivalent to 30 million yuan, which was actually less than one-sixth of the Song Dynasty's income.

If it weren't for the preparation for war, the Song Dynasty could have completely exempted the two taxes. Of course, this is just a theory, but it is still impossible. In addition to paying two taxes, farmers also have various additional taxes and miscellaneous taxes from various prefectures. If they want to exempt all taxes, the court, in addition to reducing the income from the two taxes, would have to spend at least 60 million yuan more money.

However, the tax revenue in the Song Dynasty was getting lighter and lighter, and although the commercial tax increased, the joint ventures brought at least 60 million yuan in profits to major wealthy and powerful stocks a year, while the direct commercial tax was less than 20 million yuan. This alone blocked the mouths of many people.

At the same time, another data from the East Prefecture also proved the development of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty's household registration reached 21.6 million by the end of last year, while in the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of households was only 20.9 million. Although the number of households in the middle was included in Hehuang. There were more than 800,000 households surrendered to the Qiang households on Hehuang Road, but the number of households in Hehuang was also on the list in history. Although there were more hidden households in the Daguan period than now, at least there was no shortage of household registration at this time and during the Daguan period. Moreover, the area of ​​these more than 20 million households was less than 3.5 million square kilometers. If you did not humiliate the Khitan and force the Western Xia, it can be said that during the Yuanfeng period, it was almost the peak of the history of Chinese feudal rule.

These two data are so dazzling that even Gao Taotao sighed after looking at it: "The rule of Emperor You is not as good as it is now."

But at this moment, something happened that made Zheng Lang quite worried. In March, Wu Chong was seriously ill and resigned from his post as prime minister. Wu Chong died shortly afterwards.

There is also the Prime Minister, Han Jiang, and Han Jiang has a good relationship with Zheng Lang, but if Zheng Lang leaves the Secretariat, Han Jiang has limited ability and cannot take on the responsibility. Even the same is true for Lu Gongzhu and Fan Chunren.

There is another person in the court who is qualified to take on this burden, Wang Gui.

Wang Anshi is OK, but if Wang Anshi is the prime minister again, it will inevitably arouse many conflicts. On the contrary, let Wang Anshi manage finances in Sansi, be the most suitable candidate.

Therefore, Wang Gui's return to the Secretariat is inevitable.

With Wang Gui's personality, it seems that the influence is not very good.

However, Zheng Lang suddenly thought of one thing. In history, the Song Dynasty defeated Xia. There were three reasons for the great defeat in the attack of Xia. The Xixia people were underestimated. The commander was not strong and the logistics was not ready. At that time, the Song Dynasty was not as benevolent as it is now. The national treasury was sufficient. Even after the failure of the attack on Xia, the next year, there was still financial resources to launch the Battle of Yongle City. But why was the logistics insufficient?

There is no analysis in history books, and Zheng Lang doesn't believe it very much. The Song Dynasty history has been tampered with by Zhao Xu since he ascended the throne.

But there is one thing that cannot be tampered with. At that time, there was only the only prime minister in the court, Wang Gui. Unlike Wu Chong, although Wu Chong was a little conservative, he was a gentleman and had been a subordinate of Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang and his brother Wu Yu were good friends. Therefore, after Zheng Lang went to the northwest, no one in the court stabbed the knife in the back.

But what about Wang Gui?

The collapse of the Western Xia economy is more prepared, making the future victory of Xia more than in history. But if someone stabs the knife behind the scenes, it is hard to say the outcome. This is not a battle, but a battle to destroy the country!

It was not because Zheng Lang was suspicious. This back is very important in the future. It is critical to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Whether the sword can be successfully sharpened for more than 40 years. Zheng Lang was somewhat worried about handing it over to Wang Gui. Just when he was worried, Zhao Xu had already asked this question: "Duke Zheng, who will replace Wu Qing?"

With the collapse of the Western Xia economy, the attack on Xia was already on the verge of the string. It was impossible for Zheng Lang to prepare for the successor after Zheng Lang left the court. Who should take over? In Zhao Xu's mind, the best candidate was indeed Wang Gui, but because of his performance in Liu Zhi, Zhao Xu was also not relieved, so he asked this question.

In fact, the question also proved that he was considering Wang Gui.
Chapter completed!