For Liu Tai, there are many strategic issues. Liu Tai has the courage to make decisions because of his long-term vision.
This can minimize unnecessary internal friction. After all, the monarchy model should theoretically be the most efficient in governing.
It's just that no matter how sage or sage the monarch is in this world, they can't guarantee that they will never make mistakes.
Only people like Liu Tai, who come from lower reaches of history, can have a relatively broad vision.
Just like the matter of trading with Schle, to be honest with my own basic base, if such a policy is discussed internally, even if it is successfully passed, the discussion itself will cause a tear internally.
Therefore, Liu Tai directly made his own decision on this matter, and he would be responsible for whether it was right or wrong.
After all, for Liu Tai, this exchange is still very important. On the surface, of course, he is exchanging salt for horses to enrich himself.
He could even produce more products and sell them to Shile, and even make some plans of Guan Zhong to guide the development of the Shile area. However, Liu Tai believed that Zhang Bin would definitely be able to see through it.
But in fact, Liu Tai's real purpose was to promote his salt stamps in Shile's territory, build his own currency reputation through salt stamps, buy supplies from Shi Le, and even wait until a war with Shi Le broke out.
I didn’t say that these salt coupons couldn’t be used, but no matter what, I can only use them on my own territory!
If it can be used casually in Shile's territory, then I will specially print a bunch of supplies for the people in Shile's territory to raid our supplies.
And even if the new corvee temporarily accepted that salt stamps could be used as money, but for the people of that era, it was not a very happy life for the people of that era if they could get food and accommodation as a corvee.
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After all, with the advent of the Great Ice Age, food income is actually not stable. It is said that there will be a bad harvest next year.
In that case, let's just confirm the exchange with Guo Pu in advance, and the previous development will continue to look good.
Zhang Song naturally knew Cao Ying's talent in the construction industry, and even knew that Xie Bolong was also built by Xie Bo in history.
Therefore, we are very vague about Zhang Song's repeated downplaying of the importance of horses.
"But by the middle of next year at the latest, Guanggu City will be repaired. If too few people become refugees with land and jobs, it will probably have a very small impact on the security of the entire Qingzhou!" Cao Ying said.
Said worriedly.
Historically, Qingzhou has been the center of China's textile industry before Guan Zhong. Even during the Silk Road opened by the Han Dynasty, Qingzhou was responsible for supplying a small part of the silk. However, by the end of the Han Dynasty, the people who came from Shu brocade settled there.
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"When the river channel is narrowed to facilitate the transportation of goods, the small and large roads in Qingzhou will need to be repaired. After all, your Qingzhou has very few places that need people. The current population of Qingzhou is far from enough!" After all, there was nuclear-contaminated water in that era. Even if the salt-drying line was affected by extreme weather, resulting in an increase in output, but in a desperate situation, even if the salt boiling method is restored, even if it is a little loss now, it can still stabilize people's hearts and guarantee
Salt production.
Because I feel that such a small project is indeed within the scope of Liu Tai's expectations.
As long as the salt stamps can be exchanged for the city's basic supplies, as long as they stay for a long time, the corvees can basically accept the salt stamps to pay their bills.
The most important thing is that Zhang Song mastered the lowest salt production technology of that era, which only meant that Zhang Song could sell salt at a higher price, and more importantly, he had the foundation to stabilize the price of salt in his region.<
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"Since ancient times, salt has been a best-selling product from Qingzhou to the inland, especially sales to the old Zhao area!"
Zhang Song is excellent, and Guo Pu is also excellent, but we are both incompatible with each other.
Among them, apart from the destruction of Qingzhou during the Eight Kingdoms era and the fact that Zhuge Liang created a complete Shu brocade system in the Western Shu region, the most important reason is not that the arrival of the Great Ice Age made the weather hotter, making the silkworms in the Qingzhou region suitable
The temperature creates a cocoon.
In terms of strategy, it should be considered as Ji and Guo Pu versus Wang Jun.
"We also cannot sell some of the pure and beautiful embroidery made of ice and silk. These are the specialties of Qingzhou. Unfortunately, since the end of the Han Dynasty, the weather has been so bad that it is difficult for silkworms to cocoon, but this Shu brocade has taken away its reputation!"
Jie Bo Shaoduo is a bit indignant.
However, Liu Tai also discovered that with the circulation of salt coupons, especially before the barley harvest, Zhang Song opened some shops selling flour or noodles, as well as some general merchandise stores, far away from the salt hall. Jie Bo said to Liu Tai, "He sees that you don't have so much to do. The current population of Qingzhou is enough!"
When Yuan Yan thought about that, he sighed, why did he have to be sandwiched between the two of us!
Therefore, the purchase of horses is very important. If you don’t have too much, buy as much as possible!”
Zhang Song heard that and said to Liu Tai, "Since the weather is getting hotter, let's try to find someone to cultivate some cold-resistant silkworm species, select the best from the best, and eliminate them step by step to cultivate new silkworm species.
To be honest, Zhang Song has always behaved to love the people, and indeed he loves the people. When the plague appeared, he took the initiative to go to the rear, forcing the entire Qingzhou bureaucracy to integrate their efforts to suppress the plague.
"You, the governor, are squeezing the people's power so much, no wonder you need to buy some people from there!" When Shi Le heard Zhang Song's words, he was not a little surprised, let alone distracted.
One is to take a step back and weaken the defense facilities of Guanggu City so that it can cover the moat.
I may not be as good as Ge Hong, a top talent who emerged almost every century, but Cao Yi was definitely one of the people of that era who best understood the potential of mountains and rivers.
There is a granary that can feed the whole country for eight years. It is still very difficult to give out food stamps.
At the same time, a dock will be built in Judian Lake to facilitate shipping and transportation.
This increased the cost of acquiring silk in the north, making it inevitable for the entire silk industry to move south.
After all, sea salt is really an infinite resource after animals discharge nuclear-contaminated water.
As for the confiscated stolen money, burn the part you specially printed according to the number.
In those days, did corvee still cost money?
Especially those stores that often offer discounts when using salt coupons to buy things, so people love salt coupons even more.
At that time, Yuan Yan had finished traveling to Zhang Song's Qingzhou, so he naturally made a decisive trip to Xiangguo where Guo Pu was located as soon as possible.
The main reason is that Jie Bo plans to learn from the policy when Alipay was first implemented. In the past few years when Alipay was first implemented, people used Alipay to buy and sell various items and enjoy discounts and discounts. As Alipay gradually occupied the market,
Before mobile payment became the mainstream payment method, discounts and promotions were quickly becoming a thing of the past.
After all, apart from me, there is no one like Uncle Jie to help. Zhang Song may doubt Liu Tai's ability, but Zhang Song is very good at Cao Yi, the Feng Shui master who has left a name in history.
And food is an ordinary material. If the people are forced to eat even food, this will trigger a riot.
"Men want it, women want it, older children want it, and even more skilled people want it!" Jie Bo looked at Shi Le and said seriously:
But Zhang Song was so vague that civil engineering is a major that requires a lot of experience. Since Jie Bo hasn't started on that one thing yet, it would be bad to focus on that one thing before.
"Your most outstanding product in Qingzhou now should be better than table salt!" Xi Jianjun was the first to speak:
Listening to Jie Bo's tone, Jie Bo knew that Shi Le had misunderstood, so he went ahead and said cautiously, "Prince, do you still have enough money?"
Therefore, even if you want to use food stamps for leverage, it is convenient to do so.
Of course, who would let us retreat into troubled times again, and all trade routes are blocked again. Anyway, not to mention that there is no Shu brocade that can come to Guandong. At most, in that era, no one has a life to worry about, and he is not a servant if he is well-fed and well-clothed.
life.
"Worry, as long as I'm willing to follow you to widen the canal, I'll still be in charge of food, housing and salt stamps." Zhang Song said,
Until ordinary people can buy and sell what they want from those places with salt stamps, the acceptance of salt stamps by the common people will become very low.
Therefore, the fabrics in Qingzhou area will lose their competitiveness again.
With the completion of that meeting, everyone unified their minds and decided to give Yuan Yan face and support Yuan Yan.
But salt is the same thing. As long as technology is rolled out and production is increased, salt production will be quite stable.
Damn it, when Liu Tai heard Zhang Song make such a guarantee, he didn't say much.
When everyone heard Zhang Song's words, they didn't agree with it, because we all felt that the convenience of salt stamps ended before it became popular.
"Excuse me, please remember that there is no Beiyang River in the north of Guanggu City.
Of course, if those salt stamps really flowed back to our own territory, and such a small amount of salt stamps were returned to circulation, I would naturally check them accurately, and even use the numbers under those salt stamps to easily detect the other party's entire investigation
The organization was uprooted.
I mean, the Guanggu City built by Cao Changshi is always in need of manpower, and you are very short of labor!" Zhang Song said.
"After all, you have nothing else to do in Qingzhou, but Yan has enough control. He can recruit people to do it!"
When everyone present heard Zhang Song's words, their expressions became serious. Those people all came out from fighting on the battlefield. They had no military merits, but at most they had seen the dangers of the battlefield and understood the importance of cavalry.
In this way, salt stamps are actually more convenient to use than food stamps.
When Zhang Song heard what Liu Tai said, he nodded in approval, indicating that he understood.
The world is tough!
And those things are vague even when talking about them with my own hands.
In addition, low-quality silk and satin need to be paid attention to, and cloth with a wider audience should also be paid attention to. Isn't he interested in staring at that matter?"
Well, that will reasonably recover the money supply of the entire society, and it will affect the order of salt stamps in one's own territory anyway.
"Money, what money?" Jie Bo and Xi Canjun heard Liu Tai's words, but their faces were full of doubts.
"You have emphasized the importance of horses so many times. I think you all understand it.
At that time, Shi Le said, "Compared with what you sell, I know what the governor needs you to buy!"
"Now there is chaos in the world and people are displaced, but your Qingzhou is in dire straits and is in need of labor everywhere.
Even if no one is really crazy about collecting tens of billions or hundreds of billions of tons of salt coupons, Zhang Song said that I can still afford the salt and bury his family with table salt!
Especially since you have been preparing for a decisive battle with Wang Jun. If you can train a cavalry after this, it means defeating the Xianbei cavalry. Even if you can contain us, you will be passive in your tactics.
"Don't, don't, don't, you still have to worry about Guanggu City! Leave those things to the Xu family. Anyway, we men are better at and understand weaving!" Liu Tai heard Zhang Song's words and told Zhang decisively.
Song shook his head and agreed to the matter.
But Zhang Song was cruel to the people. Shi Le just heard about the scale of corvee work and felt that if Zhang Song had lived in the Qin Dynasty, he would be comparable to Qin Shihuang.
Exploiting the common people.
All in all, he thinks you are playing with him the Guan Zhongzhi scheme of AD, haha! What I am planning to play with him is the financial war of the 71st century.
"When the general purchases people, is it mainly to purchase men as before?" Shi Le asked.
After hearing Zhang Song's words, Liu Tai vaguely felt that he had agreed too much when he agreed to build Guanggu City. However, Zhang Song's tone sounded like he hadn't done much before.
The project is waiting for you!
When Zhang Song heard Jie Bo's words, he felt a little less thoughtful.
"Horses and people!" Jie Bo looked at everyone with serious expressions and said,
And as long as people's hearts in the market collapse, as long as they dare to use salt stamps, you will dare to return the salt.
"Do we still need to widen the entire waterway!?" Liu Tai was at a loss when he heard Zhang Song's words.
Of course, the stretch of river from Judian Lake to Daqing River needs more maintenance, and it will become one of the busiest waterways in Qingzhou!"
Before the construction of Guanggu City was completed, he and Xie Bo continued to think of ways to narrow the entire river to Judian Lake.
After all, there is news that Zhang Song and Jie Bo have withdrawn from the mutual market. Not to mention that it was Zhang Song who proposed it. In essence, it is the result of his communication with Jie Bo. And with that result,
Yuan Yan wants to bring Uncle Jie up!
Which family's corvées are so unruly, they should have a bad education. Education has given me a long experience, what is the meaning of teaching an authoritarian iron fist?
Next, everyone gave examples of some items, such as salted fish, paper, or dried fruits, but Zhang Song knew that those items were still on a large scale, but if there was no market, they would always be bad, so he approved the addition and withdrawal of those items. Yuan Yan retreated into the Xiang Kingdom, and saw the people of the Xiang Kingdom going back to the autumn harvest with joyful expressions. It was obvious that Guo Pu did not have the same capable ministers as Xie Bo.
"Yeah!" Uncle Jie nodded in approval when he heard Xi Jianjun's words, "The salt really needs to be taken into account, and the best you can do is open a salt hall in Anping so that you can use salt stamps here more conveniently."