"It doesn't matter what the Song envoy said."

"Our court is currently short of copper coins, and the court is facing a copper shortage, so we are promoting the payment of banknotes. If you accept the payment of banknotes, the Huizhou Forgery Market can be reopened, but you must comply with the requirements you agreed to us and limit armaments."

As soon as Brother Richard heard such a simple request, his heart immediately relaxed.

But in fact, Zhao Ding put a smoke bomb here.

Brother Richard proposed that Xixia should limit armaments. Zhao Ding seized on such a seemingly sensitive element and proposed the concept of handing over money at this time, which made Brother Richard think that the reason why Zhao Ding relented was because the Song people were interested in arms restrictions.

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In order to make Brother Richard believe this, Zhao Ding also gave reasons why there would be handover of banknotes, in order to downplay the purpose of forcing Xixia to accept the handover of banknotes.

It seems to be saying that the imperial court is forced to implement the handover of banknotes, and it is also forced for you to accept the handover of banknotes. Don't think too much, we are concerned about your armaments.

This is one of the arts of negotiation.

In order to achieve your own goals, don't raise it as soon as it comes up. Instead, wait until the two parties reach a huge point of controversy and the other party brings up a point that seems to matter to both parties. Use the cover of this point to raise your own point.

The purpose is to paralyze the opponent.

Brother Richard said: "Envoy Song, I will report this matter to my lord truthfully."

Later, after discussing some details, the two parties left the scene.

After listening to Brother Richard's report, Li Qianshun asked doubtfully: "Use handover money?"

"That's right."

"If you use copper coins well, why do you suddenly need to use banknotes?"

"According to my understanding, in the Song Dynasty, both Hebei and Hedong were promoting handover of banknotes because the Song Dynasty was indeed facing a copper shortage."

"What do you think about this?"

"I think this will have little impact on our government and may even be helpful."

"Why do you say that?"

"When handing banknotes to the exchange market, they are more convenient and easier to carry."

"But it's easily damaged."

"According to the Song Dynasty's new banknote payment regulations, old banknotes can be exchanged for equal amounts of new banknotes at the bank."

Li Qianshun thought deeply, and after a while, he said: "What if one day, the Song Dynasty suddenly stipulates that the banknotes should be invalidated, wouldn't we have a bunch of blank paper in our hands?"

"Your Majesty, we can definitely collect part of the banknotes and then go to a bank in Shaanxi to exchange a batch of copper coins for deposit."

"Can I exchange the banknotes for copper coins?"

"Can!"

"What if they don't let us redeem it?"

"We can hide our identities to redeem."

"I'm still a little worried."

"What are you worried about, Your Majesty?"

Li Qianshun thought for a while and said: "If I were Zhao Guan's family, I would print the banknotes directly to the northwest and trade with Daxia. His money would be printed directly."

"What does that have to do with us? We took the cash and exchanged it for copper coins, and only kept part of the cash for trade. We didn't lose anything."

After hearing Brother Richard say this, Li Qianshun understood.

"But what if one day, the Song Dynasty stipulates that the exchange of copper coins is no longer allowed?"

"At that time, we had already made a lot of money." Brother Richard laughed, "We can even stipulate that Daxia must use hand-in-hand banknotes, and if private people use hand-in-hand banknotes, they must hand over copper coins. We can also learn from the Song Dynasty and set up a

The bank forces people to exchange copper coins for the banknotes in our hands, and then we will have even more copper coins in our hands!"

"When necessary, we can even forge it!"

This risk transfer move is really cruel.

In this way, Xixia really has nothing to lose.

However, forgery must be out of the blue. The craftsmanship of the Song Dynasty is now world-class. Does it mean that it is a forgery?

In the fourth negotiation, the two sides finally reached agreement on a number of conditions, including Xixia's unconditional acceptance of the handover of banknotes.

Whether it is Brother Richard or Li Qianshun, their attitude towards handing over money is logically correct.

They could use this to hoard copper coins.

For example, the Xixia Kingdom had an annual income of 500,000 guan, prepared 200,000 guan in handover notes as foreign exchange reserves for Song and Xia transactions, and hoarded 300,000 guan in copper coins.

At first glance, this seems to be good for Xixia.

But in fact, the benefits to the Song Dynasty were far greater than those of Xixia.

When two countries are in a competitive relationship, mutual benefit and win-win results are relative.

While the benefits to the Song Dynasty were far greater than those of its enemies, in fact, to a certain extent, it was at a disadvantage to Xixia.

The explanation is very simple. The use of banknotes in the Song Dynasty could quickly solve the financial problems in the northwest, especially the problems of green and white salt and war horses.

These are all strategic-level problems. Once solved, they can greatly alleviate the current difficulties of the Song Dynasty.

But the upper limit of Xixia's benefits in this new financial order will soon appear.

At the beginning, Xixia really needed money to equip its country with armaments.

But what happens when Li Qianshun accumulates more wealth?

Xixia's industry is very backward and its population is very small. What happens when there are too many banknotes and copper coins?

Is it still good for them?

An effect that could not be achieved by three million people. If they wanted to fight a currency war, the Song Dynasty only needed to drag Shaanxi out and fight it, and it could not even care how much copper coins they hoarded.

How much to hoard?

Ten million strings?

For Zhao Ning, this could be solved by initiating a big case, ransacking a bunch of homes, or digging through a few copper mountains.

The comprehensive strength of a country is its size and upper limit.

What determines the size and upper limit is not the amount of currency, but productivity, population and industrial structure.

Currency is only a catalyst for national development, nothing more.

When the Xixia people were obsessed with getting rich in the past few years, the Song Dynasty, which had solved the pain of blue and white salt and the pain of war horses, had already had the strength to destroy them.

On June 20th, eight hundred miles of urgent news was placed on Zhao Ning's desk, and the Xixia people agreed to use the banknotes.

For the ambitious Zhao Ning, this is just the first step in his new financial order.

Is there no problem with new finance?

Of course not, any order has its problems, but it is obviously unfounded to worry now or to stop moving forward because of possible problems.

Everything has to be done step by step.

On the afternoon of June 20, detailed information about the incident on Xihe Road was also placed on Zhao Ning's desk.

There are many messages in it indicating that Wang Yi, the commander of the Xihe Road Route, betrayed the country by colluding with the enemy.

However, there were also many reports pointing out that Li Yanxian, the magistrate of Huizhou, had overstepped his authority and was suspected of treason.

Especially after the news of Li Yanxian's execution of Wang Yi spread among the official circles of Tokyo City, it was a complete explosion.

After passing through the envoys along the way, he was actually beheaded by a local magistrate in public.

This...this is simply rebellion!

You must know that in the Song Dynasty, civil servants at the level of military envoys were qualified to be prime ministers after returning to the capital.

But this incident quickly became polarizing, and there were many reports praising Li Yanxian, believing that Li Yanxian had made great contributions and must be rewarded.

While everyone was quarreling, the reward from Zhao Guan's family was already on its way to the northwest.

This time, many new people have emerged, so they naturally need to be promoted.

After the Sixth Song-Xia War, whether it was personnel allocation, military rectification, or a new financial order, it all heralded the beginning of Zhao Ning's grand strategy for the northwest.

His goal is to destroy Xixia, take back Hexi and Hetao, completely solve the hidden dangers in the northwest, and make every effort to expand the war horse reserve.
Chapter completed!