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On the fifth day of the August 2018, with the efforts of Li Hu, the second phase of Lishan's political discussion was progressing smoothly.

On the sixth day of the eighth month, Li Hu summoned the prime minister in the meeting hall and officially announced the strategy for the Western Expedition.

Li Hu began to plan the Western Expedition as early as after defeating the Jin army on the Central Plains battlefield. However, the financial crisis of the imperial court was too serious, and the Western Expedition was actually not qualified. However, for more than half a year, the continuous assistance of Li Shishi and Yan Qing gave Li Hu a great inspiration, making him realize that the great merchants and wealthy merchants of the Song Dynasty had accumulated huge wealth in the development process of more than a hundred years, especially the Sichuan-Shu area. Because of its unique geographical conditions, commerce and trade were very developed, which can be seen from Jiaozi taking the lead in Sichuan-Shu.

Jiaozi was born because of the development of commerce. Today, after the development of commerce stagnated due to war, it needed the further development of the Jiaozi system to promote the recovery and progress of commerce. Sichuan and Sichuan merchants had a thorough understanding of the relationship between the Jiaozi system and the development of commerce, so Changsun Kangning's financial system reform strategy was found. This also further shows the wealth of Sichuan and Sichuan merchants. Due to geographical relations, there were fewer wars. In addition, it was connected to Tubo in the west, Dali in the south, and there were two water and land routes in the east and north, along with the northwest, Central Plains and Southeast. As long as policies encouraged, commerce had the conditions to develop rapidly.

Li Hu thus set his sights on merchants in Sichuan, Sichuan, Jinghu and western Jing, intending to raise food and grass through credit loans, interest exchange and other methods. At present, this method has been successful, but the merchants have a very big appetite, especially after they knew that Li Hu was eager to launch the Western Expedition, they threatened this and put forward the demands for participation in politics, which far exceeded Li Hu's expectations.

The ministers in the court, led by Li Gang, firmly opposed this. The national policy and official system could be modified and developed, but this development direction deviated from the basic Confucian theory they understood and deviated from the trajectory of governing for more than a thousand years. They could not accept it, and they would not allow the power of the state to be separated from their control. However, Li Hu came up with the high-sounding reason of "unification". In order to unify and unify Zhongtu as soon as possible, the court had to do whatever it took, even at all costs, even at the highest power structure of the country.

Li Hu was very strong, and the ministers in the court were not. They could not turn against Li Hu at this moment, so they had to adopt a "flexible" strategy. On the one hand, they were under the banner of "unification" to make partial compromises to the landlords and merchants. On the other hand, they used their power to make various restrictions in the formulation of various policies, trying every means to suppress the landlords and merchants and prevent them from entering the court.

In a short time, Li Gang, Li Fu, Zhao Mingcheng and others also came up with a countermeasure, which was to fully support the Western Expedition, use compromise methods to take out the wealth of the landlords and merchants bit by bit, and use these wealth to unify Zhongtu as soon as possible. Once Zhongtu is unified, the court's reform measures gradually achieved results and get rid of the financial crisis. Then, various methods will be used to force the landlords and merchants to expose their greedy nature, thereby angering Li Hu, and use the force in Li Hu's hands to deal a heavy blow to these landlords and merchants, completely cutting off their fantasy of seizing power.

The opinions of the ministers in the court were unified, so whether it was Lishan's political discussion or the strategy of the Western Expedition, everything went smoothly. This unexpected success made Li Hu and the landlords and merchants in Lishan secretly uneasy. They realized that the huge group of scholars would never give in easily. They must have thought of countermeasures and are beginning to dig traps. The future struggle will be even more cruel.

Li Hu is fearless. With the victory on the battlefield, his strength is getting stronger and stronger, and no one can threaten him; the landlords and merchants are not afraid, Li Hu's reform strategy has been established. As long as Li Hu is alive and as long as the tiger harsh people control power step by step, their survival will not be problematic. The game of power is always accompanied by blood. Merchants gradually grow up in thousands of years of blood. In order to get rid of the fate of being swallowed by others, they must be tight.

Seize this opportunity and change your destiny.

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The Lishan Political Consultation can be said to be under the intentional push of Li Hu and Hu Lie Ren, the scholar group and the landlords and merchant group had their first confrontation, while the Western Expedition was their second game.

According to the plan of the Privy Council, the Western Expedition requires the recruitment of about 200,000 troops, and the temporary recruitment of 100,000 grain-fired troops and about 200,000 people, which requires about 3,000 guan of money, grain, weapons and other various war materials. This 30 million guan can only support the war's needs for three months. If the Western Expedition is too long and it will be delayed tomorrow's spring, for more than half a year, then the military expenditure of this war may double, reaching more than 60 million guan.

The treasury has no money anymore, and the fiscal budget has caused the treasury to be seriously deficient. All the funds for the Western Expedition military have to be borrowed on credit.

With Li Hu's efforts, the landlords and merchants led by Changsun Kangning were exempted from lending interest, but they made a request to immediately establish a joint chamber of commerce to unify the planning of the operation. In addition, the imperial court established an institution specifically responsible for providing military supplies to the battlefield of the Western Expedition. The reason was very simple, and the money, grain and materials were all

It was provided by the landlords and merchants. The purpose was to ensure the needs of the battlefield of the Western Expedition. If the court handled it, there would inevitably be corruption, misappropriation or even embezzlement. This would seriously damage the trust of the landlords and merchants in the imperial court, and at the same time seriously endanger the security of the Western Expedition army and directly affect the victory of the Western Expedition.

The ultimate goal of this requirement is to establish a joint chamber of commerce independent of the court. This joint chamber of commerce is composed of large landlords, big merchants and leaders of guilds from all walks of life. Once established, they will have the power to organize, manage and supervise the economy. They can use their own power to influence or even compete with the court's financial system, and then interfere with the national affairs.

Changsun Kangning took the lead in proposing a plan to establish a joint chamber of commerce in Mount Li, but Li Gang saw its influence and the harm it caused at a glance, and rejected it. This joint chamber of commerce was too huge and its strength could not be compared with a certain guild. The reason why Changsun Kangning came up with this method was to protect the interests of landlords and merchants from harm, and to influence or interfere with the court's financial system reform. On the other hand, it was to compete with the court for control of financial reform and do its best to get rid of the passive situation of letting the court slaughter.

Reform will definitely cost you. Landlords and merchants are unwilling to bear this price and are unwilling to become reforms.

The victims of the Revolution, so they took advantage of the opportunity of Lishan to discuss politics and tried every means to gain the power to participate in politics and discuss politics. However, under the absolute strength of the court, they did not succeed. They then flew and planned to use the huge organization of the United Chamber of Commerce to fight against the court and protect themselves. There is no way out. Which of these landlords and merchants who are rich and wealthy are willing to become the dish of the court?

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When Li Hu announced the plan of the Western Expedition and the ministers in the meeting hall began to discuss this plan, they were not the attack plan formulated by the Privy Council, but the preparations for the military supplies of the Western Expedition.

Li Hu spent two nights to discuss a fundraising plan with a group of landlords and merchants such as Changsun Kangning. The focus of this plan was to establish a joint chamber of commerce, and the joint chamber of commerce and the Privy Council jointly undertake the military needs of the Western Expedition, leaving the prime minister, the political affairs of the three provincial governments aside. Of course, this plan was fiercely opposed by the prime ministers.

Li Gang, Li Fu, Zhao Mingcheng, the censor Zhang Xiaochun and others all opposed it. The reasons for the objection were all attributed to the resolutely not allowing these landlords and merchants to interfere in the national affairs. They repeatedly indulged and even encouraged landlords and merchants to interfere in the national affairs.

Sharp criticism was made.

The more Li Hu heard, the more angry he became, and directly questioned Li Gang and others, "The situation is here. If we miss this opportunity, it will be difficult for us to eliminate the Dangxiang people and recover the lost land in the western frontier. If the Western Xia is not destroyed, we will always be in the dilemma of fighting on the second and third lines. We have to wait until that day to unify Zhongtu? Middle Earth has been unable to be unified for a long time, and it will not have much impact on your power and interests, but it is a disaster for the people of Middle Earth. Are you willing to watch Middle Earth split for a long time and suffer from life?"

Li Hu was furious and was shocked. The ministers in the meeting hall were secretly shocked and did not dare to deal with it.

"The reason for your opposition is that you are worried that landlords and merchants will endanger the country's destiny, but the country's destiny has reached this point. Landlords and merchants are willing to take the initiative to help us achieve the cause of unification. You cannot give them some trust? You cannot make any concessions? You say that they have ulterior motives and conspire to fight against the court, but do they have the strength to fight? Their establishment of a united society is to protect themselves. They are afraid of the court, and we are afraid that we will plunder them unscrupulously and even destroy them. Can't you see such a simple thing?"

"Master, now

The fact is that with your support, they are unscrupulously plundering the wealth of the Song Dynasty and embezzling the power of the court." Li Gang finally couldn't help it and confronted Li Hu.

Li Hu didn't want to argue with him, so he stretched out a big hand and placed it in front of Li Gang. "The fact now is that we have the strength and we have controlled their life and death. Today, I need them, and my palm can be facing up..." Li Hu suddenly rolled his palm, "If I don't need them, I can kill them at any time."

The meeting hall suddenly became quiet and everyone was shocked. What was Li Hu going to do? The rabbit was dead and the dog was cooking?

Li Hu looked at Li Gang coldly, and his eyes swept across everyone's faces one by one, "Can I continue talking?"

Li Gang smiled bitterly. He didn't know whether Li Hu's ideas for change were influenced by landlords and merchants. He was worried that Li Hu would put the cart before the horse in future changes. At that time, once the development of industry and commerce broke out of normal track and exceeded the scope that the basic industry could not bear, the finances would inevitably collapse instantly.

"DaShip, the development of industry and commerce is restricted by agriculture, and the situation where land and food cannot continue to increase

Next, excessive development of industry and commerce will inevitably lead to the outbreak of the national crisis." Li Gang had to remind Li Hu that indulging and supporting landlords and merchants to confront the court, the result would be a disaster.

"That's why we need a big strategy, we need to continue to conquer and build a large territory to increase our land and food." Li Hu said seriously, "But I am firmly determined in the established reform strategy, especially before the unification of Middle-earth and before the financial crisis is resolved, I definitely need the absolute support of landlords and merchants."

In the early morning of the seventh day of the lunar month, under the threat of Li Hu and the insistence of the Huli people, the prime ministers unanimously passed the plan to raise the military needs of the Western Expedition.

On the morning of the seventh day of the lunar month, Li Hu issued an order in the name of the emperor, agreeing to the landlords and merchants to establish a joint chamber of commerce independent of the court, and authorizing them to raise military supplies for the Western Expedition, cooperate with the Marshal's Office, and the Privy Council to transport food, grass and supplies to the Western Expedition army.
Chapter completed!