Of these two steps, the more important one is undoubtedly the latter one.
Taking this opportunity to defeat Tuyuhun and enter Hexi was Li Xinchen's fundamental goal.
Li Xinchen had been coveting the Western Regions for a long time.
Therefore, Li Xingchen also hoped that Yang Su could return to Luoyang City as soon as possible to preside over the Taiwei Mansion. Whether it was gilded or not was not that important at this time.
Moreover, if Pei Zilie is placed in Guanzhong, once the battle situation gets out of control, Pei Zilie can be ordered in the moment of danger and directly lead the Guanzhong soldiers and horses north to fight. Otherwise, if Yang Su is in Guanzhong, he will need to be equipped with a handsome man. Even if Li Xingchen himself knows
Yang Su actually has the ability to lead an army, but at least now it is difficult to convince the masses.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry plans to build a new workshop in the northwest to support the northwest battlefield nearby." Yan Bi handed over a memorial, "In addition, the Ministry of Commerce also proposed to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to open a line from Guanzhong and Bashu to the northwest as soon as possible.
The Chi Road or even the Straight Road can be used to directly support the northwest war."
Li Xingchen was a little surprised that the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce were so active this time?
But think about it, what is the most profitable? War!
War means that the court needs to build a large amount of arms, and the expansion of territory means that more foreigners will be brought under the banner of the Han Dynasty. What kind of life did these foreigners live before?
I dare not even think about it.
The people at the bottom of society can now easily become the cheapest labor force. The upper class of society, who are qualified to wear gold and silver, will become loyal fans of Han's various fresh products that are ahead of the world, and they will spend a lot of money.
He spent a lot of money to buy various products from Dahan to show off his identity.
This is not the first time that this happened. After the Han conquered places such as Lingnan and Annan, many local indigenous nobles were proud to own a carriage or furniture made by the Han, or even a simple set of porcelain.
, they also regard owning these things as the standard for integrating themselves into the Celestial Kingdom and becoming a member of the Celestial Kingdom. If anyone’s home does not order some high-priced Han products, they will be embarrassed to open their doors.
However, this situation does not happen every time when the Han Dynasty expands its territory. There were trade exchanges between the Han Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty before. Therefore, after the Han Dynasty completely occupied the north, the northern people and those aristocratic families - the aristocratic families were the consumers.
The big merchants—did not show extreme enthusiasm for Dahan's products. After all, they had seen such products to some extent before, and they had some idea of whether these products were practical or not, and how much they were worth. There were even many wealthy people from aristocratic families.
We already have a lot of such products at home, so naturally we will not have the desire to buy more. Instead, it is the people in the city who really start to buy these things. But how much spending power can the people in the city have?
So this time the Han army went to the north, the world was happy, but the merchants who followed the army north were not very happy. Those large-profit commodities obviously did not bring them the huge profits they imagined, and some were even reduced to cost prices.
Still no one cares.
The merchants obviously also realized that this way of obtaining huge profits through people's curiosity is not a long-term solution. A famous merchant group in the Han Dynasty, namely the Bashu merchants, clearly stated in a summary submitted to the Ministry of Commerce that:
Instead of pinning the hope of business development on short-term huge profits, it is better to promote the construction of banks and bazaars in a long-term manner.
Build more banks, especially the banks that were originally located in state capitals and move them to towns and even some wealthy villages, so that people have a place to deposit and withdraw money, so that funds can flow.
It goes without saying that building more markets is to give people more places to sell their own goods and obtain other goods.
Bartering is the most basic way of trade, and the establishment of banks and markets will undoubtedly make money gradually become the best way to intermediary between items. It turns out that during the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, all dynasties also promoted their own currencies.
However, with the continuation of wars and the uncertainty of the rule between each dynasty, the value of coins cannot be guaranteed, especially those "Dang Bai" or even "Dang Qian" cast in order to save metal. When a dynasty
After the collapse, these currencies will naturally have no endorsement. Who can guarantee whether they can still be used?
Therefore, bartering has become a more common method of trade among people over a long period of time. After all, the goods you see with your own eyes are real. As for coins, if they are not kept in full, they will become worse than waste paper.
Likewise, in the upper echelons of society, gold and silver naturally play similar roles.
After the founding of the Han Dynasty, large-scale banks were built in the south and "Xinyuan Tongbao" was promoted. Checks and banknotes were even popular among banks to facilitate currency calculations. However, in fact, this trading system has only existed in various states for a long time.
In the big cities, it has gradually become one of the reasons why the villagers in the countryside and the people in the prefectures and towns are different from each other and even despise each other.
Now the businessmen's reports have obviously realized that if they want to make long-term profits, they still need to push forward as much as possible to the people in the fields and build more banks and markets so that the people can trust the banks and be willing to use them in the markets.
The currency taken from the bank is used to buy goods. Only in this way can the currency circulate. Once the currency circulates, profits will naturally flow in it, and merchants can obtain a steady stream of profits from it.
For the Han Dynasty, the sinking of the trade system is naturally not a bad thing. People trust the court's coins and are willing to buy goods instead of hiding money and items in their own homes. This can not only promote social and economic development, but also promote
exchanges in various regions.
With more exchanges, wouldn't the various regions of the country influence each other and gradually integrate? When regions are integrated and the country is unified, it will naturally be possible to be consistent with the outside world.
This time when the Han Dynasty went to war in the northwest, these merchants obviously noticed new business opportunities. The northwest is a land that few people have set foot on before, and its commercial market is almost blank - saying it is blank may be a bit too much, but
At least those aristocratic families in the northwest are definitely no match for mainland merchants when it comes to starting a business.
Therefore, the merchants want to build a road directly to the northwest, which will not only allow the army to advance quickly to quell the chaos in the northwest, or even directly open the Hexi Corridor to connect the Western Regions, but also allow their goods and goods to even move to banks and markets.
Wait for it to quickly take root in the northwest along this road.
Once the Silk Road is connected in the future, the northwest will naturally become an important node for the Han Dynasty's trade network to extend westward. Of course, merchants will want to capture the empty market in this land first.