The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 769 The Age of Navigation
After Lu Heng and the important ministers of the Song Dynasty reorganized the mechanisms of administrative counties, setting up officials, promoting, demoting and punishing, etc., the New Deal's 'Nongsang Law', 'Fangtian Average Tax Law', 'Farmland Water Conservancy Law', etc. A series of land laws and regulations were promulgated one by one.

The second is that when discussing economic laws such as the "Merchant Law" and "Young Crop Law", Lu Heng dropped a blockbuster to establish a central bank system mechanism, including national debt, savings, loans, mortgages, unified currency, currency exchange rate, and price guidance. A series of system explosions such as price and so on left all the important ministers dumbfounded.

Among them, Lu Heng still needs to find 'paper money', that is, 'silver tickets' to solve the problem of insufficient copper in the Song Dynasty. Now that there is a shortage of gold and silver precious metals in the Song Dynasty, it is impossible to propose a 'silver standard' and a 'gold standard', only temporarily Use 'copper standard'.

Then Lu Heng had to collect various coins from the former dynasty and princes from the people under the Song Dynasty, and then exchange them for the corresponding 'national debt' or 'bank notes'.

At the same time, it was explained what national debt is, which is mortgage currency with interest, while banknotes are a single business exchange, using unusable money to exchange usable money to attract private exchanges, and all these copper coins are resmelted by the central bank. Created and issued the new unified currency of the Song Dynasty.

Lu Heng stipulated that the person in charge of the central bank belongs to the administrative division and is also an official. Lu Heng, the first governor of the central bank, already had a candidate in mind, that is, Liu Ba, the deputy of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. It was Lu Yu who made a deep impression on Lu Heng during this scientific expedition. Many of his economic ideas coincided with Lu Heng's.

Originally, Yu Fan was transferred to the top of the Central Committee as the deputy of the ICAC, Wei Jing was appointed as the governor of Huaizhou, and Yang Xiu was assigned to be the governor of Zhizhong.

In this way, when Lu Heng explained the integration of the central bank and sorted out the entire financial system, all the great talents asked about the pros and cons of each term, such as the concept of lending, mortgage, and national debt. Some have similar concepts in this era. Things such as pawn shops, some of which are not available, must be understood and detailed one by one.

After Lu Heng talked about the economic system and everyone understood, accepted and set the plan, Lu Heng dropped another bombshell. The 'Merchant Law' not only targeted domestic business and trade, but also international business and trade. .

Nowadays, the land international commercial trade of the Song Dynasty only collects "customs duties", but Lu Heng set his goal on the sea, which was also an important reason for attracting the three marshals of the navy. Even if Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin heard that the previous government affairs were in confusion I didn't let them leave all the time, just waiting for this moment.

Lu Heng took the map of the Song Dynasty and focused on two places. The first one was the island country and the second one was the Malay Archipelago!

"These two places have wealth beyond our imagination. In the past few years, our soldiers have arrived in Yamatai, and this place has also fallen into chaos. What we want is to take these places, and these places are also the places where our soldiers were trained in the Song Dynasty.

The goal of Shenshui Camp, Haijiao Camp, and Shenhuo Camp in the past three years is to capture these two places, including Jeju Military Island, Zhuya Military Island, and Yuzhousan Military Island, which will be your strong backing. "

"But officials, according to the national policy of 'Three Years of Weary Cao', the policy is to recuperate and not go to war on a large scale, and what do we need from these backward islands? If the Song Dynasty falls into the quagmire of war, how can we recuperate?"

Just when Lu Heng was talking about the age of sailing, when Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's eyes became brighter and brighter, and when Zhou Yu looked at Lu Heng with complicated eyes, Zhang Zhao jumped out to object again!

"Crack, clap!" Lu Heng was clearly prepared. Following the clapping of Qin Han's hands, plates of metal were brought up, and everyone saw that they were unrefined gold ore and silver ore, as well as a set of armor and some weapon.

"This is the ore that Jin Yiwei has explored in the past two years. There is a huge mine on the island called Izumo just mentioned, and there is a huge gold mine in the slave country. The state owns the gold and silver we need in Song Dynasty!
And these are their weapons. The wooden spears, knives, and armor that can be cut off are mainly made of bamboo armor, and they don't even have horses. Defeating them with the elite of the Song Dynasty is like finding something out of a bag! "

Lu Heng is not just imagining, but the last time when the Dasong fleet accidentally got lost at sea and went to an island country, he asked Zhu Tao and Zhang Yun to develop a mature route to the island country, and then walked a lot of Jin Yiwei to investigate the news.

After many years of research, I finally found out the entire situation of the island country in this era. The news that Lu Heng wanted was that gold and silver mines were not precious metals in the island country. On the contrary, there was very little copper. However, there were many, many materials that the Song Dynasty needed. .

Nowadays, the main political powers of the small island country are called the Slave Kingdom and the Xiong Kingdom, but they are composed of vassal states. In Lu Heng's impression, Yamatai is one of the stronger vassal states. Now the island country is also in civil strife.

And Lu Heng wants to win the island country and start the era of great navigation ahead of schedule. The Japanese archipelago and the Malay archipelago closest to the Song Dynasty are the primary goals. Then Lu Heng set a small goal for himself to have news of Australia in his lifetime. Of course, now absolutely Not by that name.

"Reporting to the officials, Wang Shao of Liaozhou presented the "Ping Rong Policy"!" Speaking of the foreign war, Yu Yunwen also raised his own objection appropriately, which was obviously related to the sending of troops to the slave country at sea.

"Ping Rong Ce"?Lu Heng remembers that in history, he proposed the strategy of "recovering Hehuang, appease the Qiang people, and isolating Xixia", which also opened the prelude to the Northern Song Dynasty sending troops to the Qingtang Dynasty. Force Xixia to destroy the country.

Many colleagues who traveled through the Water Margin or the late Northern Song Dynasty believed that Xixia was very weak and could destroy the country in one battle. In fact, this was an important reason for the "Pingrong Policy".

But now that Wang Shao is in Liaozhou instead of Liangzhou, he did not expect to present "Pingrong Policy". Lu Heng opened it and saw that Wang Shao's strategic goals coincided with his own. South Korea and Bianhan, wooed Hao Qian and isolated the Jurchens as the basis for occupying the Liaodong Peninsula.

Wang Shao analyzed that the Jurchens would definitely go south to attack Wang Jian's Koryo, and the latter would ask for help from the Song Dynasty, which had won the Three Koreas, so that they could take advantage of the trend to annex Koryo, and send troops from Liaozhou and the Korean Peninsula to go north together. The real person is under attack.

With the addition of Wang Shao's "Ping Rong Ce", it seems that the small-scale military operations within three years will be places such as Bingzhou, Nanzhong, the Korean Peninsula, and island countries.

And this also means that the era of navigation in the Song Dynasty is just beginning, and China's footsteps towards the sea are also unfolding for the first time in this time and space.

Lu Heng and other important ministers in the cabinet continued to discuss national policy. It seemed so inconspicuous, but in fact only Lu Heng knew what this step meant.

(End of this chapter)