Iron Dynasty

The Qingzhou camp was full of people.

At this time, Xiao Ming, Fiji and others stood in the military camp and watched all this with smiles on their faces.

Pang Yukun said: Congratulations, Your Highness, I didn't expect that King Wei's atrocities helped His Highness to unite the people's hearts, and now it is the unity of all people to seal the country from top to bottom.

This is indeed a bit of an accident, and it's not difficult to explain. Today's people don't want to go back to being bullied by the wealthy. Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

Fiji and Pang Yukun nodded, and Fiji said, Although the people are angry, we have no way to recruit so many soldiers. The finances of Fengguo can't afford it, and soldiers are not expensive.

Although Xiao Ming ordered the expansion of the army this time, more people came to sign up to join the army this time, but it can be seen that during this period of time, the country and ethnic education of the common people have achieved initial results.

The numbness of the country and me can no longer sway the minds of the people.

Yeah, this time Yangzhou was slaughtered, and our idea of ​​getting a lot of supplies from Yangzhou City failed. Even the army we recruited now will probably be stretched thin. Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun and Fiji looked at each other, sighed and said yes.

Xiao Ming was angry for a while. King Wei's scorched earth policy turned the original war dividend into a negative asset. Now he has to find a way to reverse the situation.

Thinking of this, he said to the two: This king has an idea, the government treasury has money and grain, but the merchants and people of Qingzhou have it, this king is going to issue war bonds, as long as those who buy war bonds will be able to get the spoils of war in the future. Dividends, you guys How do you feel?

War bonds? Both Fiji and Pang Yukun were stunned.

Xiao Ming came back to his senses, he remembered that the two of them didn't know what a war bond was, so he explained it.

In fact, his war bonds are only equivalent to national debt. It was only because it was a war period, and the wars were won again and again, and the people's confidence was very high, so he decided to issue war bonds.

Similar to national debt, the purpose of war bonds is to raise materials in advance. The strategic goal set below is half a year later, so he wants to raise war materials during this half year.

In fact, he has already done this kind of thing. This was during the Northern Expedition, but at that time, it was only a few big businessmen who benefited. Now these few businessmen have almost monopolized the grasslands of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

Out of vigilance against monopoly capital, Xiao Ming did not recruit merchants this time, but decided to issue them throughout the entire feudal country, so that people could receive war bonds even if they took food.

In this way, he can prevent his feudal country from being swayed by war capital. After all, taking history as a mirror, he does not want to be controlled by fanatical war capital.

After explaining it, Fiji and Pang Yukun understood that this war bond is nothing more than borrowing money from businessmen and people to fight the war. When the war bonus is obtained, the bonus will be returned to the people and the interest will be paid in addition.

Pang Yukun was immediately amazed, and Fiji shook his head again and again. He didn't know what Xiao Ming thought of this wonderful method.

According to the normal system of the Great Yu Kingdom, the solution to the lack of money in the treasury is very simple, and that is to levy heavy taxes.

Now Xiao Ming did not consider this option at all, but directly adopted this gentle method.

Do you understand now? Xiao Ming asked.

I understand. After I go back, I will ask the Chamber of Commerce to list the war bonds for sale. Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, But you have to control it and limit the number of purchases so that very few merchants can buy them wantonly and make huge profits.

Now Xiao Ming is no longer worried about the unification of the Great Yu Kingdom, but with the reform of the closed country, the social change may go to an uncontrollable stage.

With the blossoming of people's wisdom, all kinds of advanced ideas will be mastered by the people. What he is most worried about is that people's opinions will be used by people with intentions, which will lead to the division of the country because of ideology.

The people who are most likely to take advantage of public opinion are the big capitalists. Now Qingzhou is just at the embryonic stage of capital. Once he unifies the Great Yu Kingdom and enters the ocean, the capital will inevitably grow like a wild horse that has run away. How can he tame this Head beast?

After all, it is not as easy to maintain stability as it is in this age of information stagnation and backwardness.

After talking about this, Xiao Ming remembered that Princess Pingyang entered the mansion yesterday and talked about the royal clan. He was with Concubine Zhen at the time, and Princess Pingyang brought it up after she sent gifts to Fei Yue'er and Concubine Zhen.

So he asked: What do you think of the royal family in Qingzhou this time? Now they want to ask for money at all.

Hearing this, Fiji immediately looked at his nose and heart, pretending to be confused. He was an old fox and did not want to offend these people.

Pang Yukun said sternly: His Royal Highness, it is absolutely impossible to feed these royal clans in vain. Since the ancestors, the number of royal clans in the Great Yu Kingdom has reached more than 100,000 people, and the enshrined of these 100,000 people has become the national treasury. It’s a heavy burden, if His Highness wants to raise these people, it won’t take long for Fengguo to collapse.”

Xiao Ming took it seriously. This reminded him of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, these royal family members were also a heavy burden on the court, but the Ming Dynasty at that time would rather support these people than let them support themselves.

Fiji, what do you think? Xiao Ming looked at Fiji. He didn't believe that Tang Guogong, Rong Guogong, had never contacted Fiji.

Compared with Xiao Ming, these people are more familiar with Fiji, Luo Quan and others.

His Royal Highness, the number of royal family members in Qingzhou City is not much now. In fact, there are only more than a thousand people. The others are distributed in various parts of the Great Yu Kingdom, but these thousand people are people with relatively high titles. Fiji said.

Xiao Ming actually wanted to force Fiji to express his thoughts, but now it seems that Fiji agrees to feed these people.

Elder Feige, you know how much silver is in the treasury now, aren't you causing trouble? Pang Yukun naturally heard the overtones of Fiji.

Fiji was calm as usual, he sighed, and said: Pang Shoufu, don't worry, what I said naturally has a reason for what I said, these people can't let them starve to death on the street, after all, they have fled thousands of miles to this place where they live in Qingzhou. Familiar, to say a common saying, these people are relatives of His Royal Highness, even if His Highness does not have the money to support them, there must be a way out for them. Moreover, this is for His Highness to be able to ascend the throne smoothly in the future, after all, when the time comes to worship When the ancestral temple is still in need of these people, they are more important at this time, not to mention, with the support of these people, the throne of His Highness can be more stable.

Xiao Ming glanced at Fiji. After all, Fiji's thinking still stayed at the level of family management of the country.