[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

Good rain knows the season, when spring is here.

It can be seen from this that the rain that does not occur in spring is really not a good rain.

For example, the prefectures of Xin, Wu, Confucianism, and Wei, which have been in drought for three consecutive months, have long been full of complaints and complaints.

Zhao Yuan knew that a little further to the west of these lofty mountains was the settlement of the Han people from ancient times to the present, the loess plateau in the future.The original slash-and-burn farming has already caused large-scale soil erosion, forcing the Yellow River to divert and burst year after year.In recent years, there have been severe droughts year after year, and there is not even a drop of rain.

A little further to the west is the vast prairie and the vast sea full of war.In the near future, a huge Mongolian Empire will rise there, like a greedy monster, devouring countless lands and countless people.

Nowadays, it is the spring rain that is as thin as silk, and the spring rain is as expensive as oil...

Zhong Yi held her waist with one hand and clung to the rein with the other, and whispered in her ear: "Is the emperor planning to come out?"

Zhao Yuan looked westward for a while, and then said: "I bought a lot of grain and utensils when I passed by the Kingdom of Jin a few days ago."

That's right, "buy".

Anyway, Zhao Yuan was short of everything except money, buying grain at a high price would cause a large-scale food shortage in the Kingdom of Jin.This kind of thing that harms the enemy's country and benefits herself, she is happy to do ten or eight things every day, and she feels comfortable.

"Huh?" Zhong Yi slightly raised his final voice, "Buy? Grain?"

Zhao Yuan turned his head and gave him a deep smile: "If I told you that I didn't have any plans at all, I just came here for sightseeing, would you believe me?"

Zhong Yi laughed, and asked her back: "Then why didn't the Empress go back to Bianliang to 'tour the mountains and play in the water'?" Now that Bianliang has been robbed for the second time, it has become too decadent.If she didn't have the intention to take Yan Yun down, then the first one to save should be Bian Liang.

Zhao Yuan was speechless, turned his head silently, and stopped looking at him.

Obviously, this young and smart general already knew her well.

Zhong Yi smiled lowly, and embraced her waist even more forcefully.Anyway, no one here knows them, and gossip can't fly to Yushitai.

Looking at the bustling city in front of him, Zhao Yuan muttered to himself: "Since the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, the Jin people have taken over here very smoothly. But precisely because of 'smoothness', the people here have become accustomed to changing emperors frequently. They were Han people thousands of years ago, Tang people 600 years ago, Liao people 20 years ago, and Jin people today..."

Such a quick change of identity, such frequent changes of dynasties, if he hadn't become numb to the extreme, he would definitely not be able to bear it.

And what she needs now is precisely this kind of "numbness".

"Let's go." She turned her head and said to Zhong Yi with a smile, "Let's go and buy two banks."

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Xinzhou is not big, but it is also not small. It can accommodate a few prosperous cities, and it can also accommodate millions of farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen...

Zhao Yuan spent quite a lot of money to buy a dilapidated bank.She still remembers how the boss of the bank watched her move gold out piece by piece.Those are all pure gold ingots, determined not to be mixed with any water, and the year name used by Zhao Ji is clearly cast on it.The owner of Qianzhuang swallowed his saliva very hard, and his throat was a little sore.

"This is half." Zhao Yuan pointed to the gold ingots piled on the ground and said.

The boss of Qianzhuang swallowed hard again, and barely rolled his eyes.My God, God of Wealth, which grandma of God of Wealth did he meet today...

This gold is enough to buy three such big banks!Still making money every day!

"The other half, I will use 'Jiaozi' to pay, and I will pay in cash after a month." Zhao Yuan threw out a big pie with a smile.

She heard the voice of the owner of the bank drooling with satisfaction.

Then, regardless of the fact that he was approaching sixty years old and Zhao Yuan was just a young girl, the owner of the bank eagerly stepped forward and grabbed her arm, saying incoherently: "You are new to this city, do you need referrals, signatures, and guides?" , Household registration... everything? Do you need a butler? You can't do anything small, but you can manage things up and down!" After speaking, he nodded vigorously.

Zhao Yuan let out a soft "huh", since he is not familiar with the place of his life, he really needs...

Swish!

A sword with a cold light came out of its sheath suddenly, and clinged to the back of the owner of the bank's hand not too far away, drawing a trace of blood just right.

"Let go." Zhong Yi said coldly.

"Oh, I'll let it go, I'll let it go right away." The owner of the bank laughed, looked Zhong Yi up and down, and his gaze stayed on the light blue tattoo on his face.The status of generals in the Song Dynasty was extremely low, and all those who joined the army had to have their faces tattooed. It is said that it was to facilitate the recovery of deserters.Now, although Zhong Yi is tall and handsome, the tattoos on his face are not deceiving at all.

"Ahem, Mr. Jun." The boss of the bank gave a flattering smile, "Look, I'm just introducing myself... You two are from the south, and you probably couldn't bear the disaster of war, so you came to Xinzhou to take refuge. If you want me to say, this is really a good place, Yangliu Yiyi peach blossom ten miles, directly comparable to Bianliang Zhouqiao Night Market, Baqiao Zheliu and..."

"Okay." Zhao Yuan waved his hand impatiently, "I really need a steward. How about this, you can arrange for me from the state government, and the price will be three times the price. Your monthly salary - also the same Give three times as much."

Her new manager smiled and wrinkled his face: "Dare to ask the boss, what do you need to buy? What else do you need to do?"

Zhao Yuan thought for a moment, and said: "Cloth shop, money shop, grain shop, antique shop... I will buy everything I can, and I will pay five times the price. But remember, half cash and half handover, in case Never make a mistake, you know?"

"My boss, please rest assured." Her new manager assured her, patting her chest.

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It is said that a grandma, the god of wealth, appeared in the city of Xinzhou recently.

She liked to pay for everything she bought in fine cash.Moreover, it will always be half in cash and half in cash.It is said that after one month, you will be able to exchange cash in the new bank opened by Grandma Caishen with Jiaozi in hand.

Everyone is happy to do business with this wealthy grandma.After all, even if there is no silver exchange in a month, it will still be a [-]% net profit.Who doesn't want to do such a good thing like falling pie from the sky?

Well, what is "Jiaozi"?

It is said that it is a thin piece of paper with signatures, paintings and pledges on it, which can be used as a bill for cash exchange.But Grandma Caishen generally likes to call it "the oldest banknote".

Another month later, the first person holding Jiaozi went to the new bank opened by Grandma Caishen in person and exchanged the other half of the cash.

Look at this perfect color!

Look at the heavy weight!

Look at the exact same shape, it is printed out of the same mold!

At the moment, everyone went to the bank opened by Grandma Caishen's family with a happy and satisfied face, and exchanged the IOUs in their hands, no, it was "Jiaozi", and exchanged them for white cash.Grandma Caishen quietly bought another batch of goods, this time still paying half in cash and half in cash.After setting a precedent, everyone likes to do business with Grandma Caishen more and more.Even the governor of the state capital sent No. 20, the eight-bedroom concubine, to falter and ask Grandma the God of Wealth if she had anything else to buy.

Where did she get all this money?

It's not that no one has guessed it, and it's not that no one has thought about this grandma of the God of Wealth.But her gold and silver seemed to be conjured out of thin air, and she could have as much as she wanted. Even if the county magistrate raised 10 taels of silver in one breath, Grandma Caishen could calmly pack it into the carriage.

That's 10 million taels!

Not ten taels, not one hundred taels, but a full 100 taels!

Everyone in the city is crazy now.

Everyone tried their best to sell their goods to Grandma Caishen, such as food, colored glaze, and porcelain... No matter what it was, Grandma Caishen would never refuse it.She is like a huge glutton, devouring the supplies in the entire city.

The contract called "Jiaozi" was also widely circulated in the city, and even gradually spread to the whole Xinzhou, as well as the nearby Ruzhou and Wuzhou...

In the end, Grandma Caishen simply gave all IOUs.

But it doesn't matter, there is a lot of gold and silver in Grandma's house, no matter how many IOUs are issued, they can be exchanged smoothly...

Gradually people found something was wrong.

The first to bear the brunt is food.

Nowadays, spring rain is as expensive as oil, and it happens to be a time when the green and yellow are not harvested. It is even more difficult to see some green on the Loess Plateau.Originally, every household had food in stock, but they couldn't afford to buy it at five or ten times the price of the God of Wealth's grandma, so they sold it all.If it is not enough, then buy from the surrounding states... After more than a month, the food prices in the surrounding four or five states have all been raised.But food has already started to be in short supply.

Followed by water.

Then there is oil.

Then there is firewood, charcoal, salt...

The price of grain increased from fifty Wen a dou to five hundred Wen a Dou, and then Wuguanqian—that is, five taels of silver a Dou.Later, food has become the existence of "gold equal to one's body".There is no way, there is too much gold in every household, stored in the cellar, it is a "dead thing" that can't be spent in several lifetimes...

Zhao Yuan stood on the high city wall, holding a stack of white strips in his hand, and smiled inscrutablely: "The ancients never deceived me."

"I don't know which 'ancient' Di Ji is talking about?" A black-armored bodyguard who came over looked at her with admiration, and said in a tone of almost worship, "Di Ji really reads poetry and books. We warriors are much stronger. Hey, as long as these states have no food, let’s see how they march and fight!"

Zhao Yuan shook his head: "No."

"Eh?"

"That's not how it is calculated." Zhao Yuan patiently explained, "The big family must have stored enough grain to survive starvation for a year or so, and maybe they can take the opportunity to drive up the price of grain. Those who are living the worst life these days , but Shengdou Xiaomin..."

The more greedy people were at the beginning, the more miserable they are now—after all, the family’s rations were all sold out for gold.

After a while, when the little grain in the hands of the farmer is exhausted, she can slowly open the warehouse to release the grain.Well, of course she won't give it away for free, but she only accepts "Jiaozi", not gold nuggets...

Let this useless gold and silver stay in the vaults of NSW forever.

Once Jiaozi is circulated on a large scale, it will be the largest inflation in history in an instant.She clearly remembers that in a small country called Zimbabwe, when buying coffee, she must order two cups at a time.Because the time to drink a cup of coffee is enough to double the local price.

She is not interested in turning NSW into Zimbabwe, but inflation will definitely arouse public resentment.

As long as the people's grievances are boiling, as long as the time comes, her hands gently push...

Holding the long sword, Zhong Yi stood quietly beside Zhao Yuan, without saying a word.He also didn't know what Zhao Yuan wanted to do, but he was too aware of her personality.Once she stands on the high city wall and smiles calmly and gracefully, it must mean that she will overthrow the whole world with those heaven-penetrating hands...

He loves her current appearance very much, and also loves her expression when she turns her hands into clouds and hands into rain.

"Mr. Shaolang."

The black-armored personal guard just now had a mournful face, trotted all the way over and asked him, "This subordinate is dull, I really don't understand what Di Ji is saying."

Zhong Yi silently added a sentence in his heart: Your young master and I don't quite understand it.

"Is this the rumored 'Shang Bing Qu Mou'?" Heijia's personal guard asked adoringly.

"Hmm..." Zhong Yi replied somewhat uncertainly, "Probably Diji wants to take over the entire Xinzhou without bloodshed."

"Emperor Ji has always been very clever, this time he will definitely not be wrong!" Another black-armored bodyguard also squeezed over, mysteriously telling his companion about the "great achievements" of Emperor Ji over the years.

"..."

Zhao Yuan silently turned his head, and silently pretended he hadn't heard anything, and continued to stand enigmatically on the city wall to blow the wind.

——What kind of military strategy is not bloody... that is obviously inflation.