The matter in the south was left to Liu Qi.

As for whether Liu Qi will work with the ministers in the court and the officials and gentry in the south, and do things in partnership with the people of the court, such as the fight against traitors and rebellion...

Uh, he's a smart guy.

A truly smart person will not do such things with his IQ.

So far, anyone can see that the wealth and strength of the Song Dynasty are already quite rich. At least compared to the surrounding countries, the Song Dynasty is indeed the richest. As for the people who are not satisfied with food or clothing, isn’t this what the whole world is like now?

Can those Europeans who eat sawdust, carrion, and boiled beans have enough food and clothing?

In this era, there is no food or clothing. The herdsmen on the grassland have only a dozen sheep, a few cows, a two horses, and they die of an epidemic. They usually squeeze some milk, trade livestock with food and salt, and then in the wind and snow of tens of degrees below zero, the family survived in the tents with air leakage. The most important source of food is to shoot various rats...

So it is easy to get plague.

The staple foods in the deserts in the Middle East are dates and goat milk.

One cup of goat milk and two dates are foods that most of them can barely guarantee every day.

By the way, the dates are not as big as a thumb!

Can Japan be full on the coast?

If they could eat enough, they wouldn't grow an average of 1.4 meters. To put it bluntly, they were still hungry to become genes. White rice is a legendary food, and civilians only have various grains, and at most they would eat roots and pickle large roots...

Well, it's actually pickled radish.

Even on the distant American continent, the Indians were half hungry and half full, but they had abundant resources. For example, bisons were everywhere on the North American continent, but it was hard to say that the Indians who were still in the Stone Age could hunt several bisons.

As for those corn-grown in South America...

By the way, their corn yield was not as high as the Song Dynasty’s wheat, and the yield per mu exceeded that of wheat. That was the 19th century. In the Republic of China, many places had a yield of dozens of kilograms per mu. The corn cob that Europeans first brought back from South America was really a stick, and it was like the pitiful corn cobs in modern corn fields, with a glance hanging on it. It was so fantastic that a stone civilization could still eat enough.

In this world where people are worse, no matter how much they are, they are the richest, and they are also the best people live.

And now it's better!

In the past, it was just rich, but it was far from the word "strong".

He was beaten by the Liao Kingdom, beaten by Xixia, and beaten by Jiaozhi, but now the Song Dynasty is the strongest and has begun to be qualified to beat anyone who wants to beat him. Even if the Jurchens went south this time, they were actually only three Xuanfu envoys from the Song Dynasty. Until now, neither Hebei nor Shaanxi troops participated in the war. Only the three Xuanfu envoys from Yanshan Road, Xuanda Road and Hedong Road, and even the Xuanfu envoys from Yanshan Road have not yet gone north to participate in the war.

But even so, the Jurchens have been blocked from the frontier, and the latter has not even set foot on the land of the Song Dynasty.

Their battlefield was Liao Xi and Ming.

Mengwu really entered the territory of the Song Dynasty, but they were only in Xuanda, and they had already entered a stalemate with Zhe Keqiu, Yang Zongmin and Guo Qizhong.

So isn’t this kind of Song Dynasty pursued by these young and strong generals?

Wang Yue is indeed Cao Cao or Gao Huan.

But it is true that he is truly moving towards prosperity and strength with the Song Dynasty. He has indeed harmed the interests of many people, but he has brought benefits to the vast majority of people. He is indeed wielding the emperor to command the princes, but the emperor is honestly afraid to complain, so why should others worry about the Zhao family?

Of course, none of these are the most important.

The most important thing is that Liu Xi knows better than anyone else that no one in the world can beat Wang Yue!

Since you can't beat it, wouldn't it be better to follow the wealth and glory honestly?

"I am just a person who is loyal to my brothers!"

Wang Yue said.

A group of military generals in front of him praised him.

This is full of famous generals from the Song Dynasty, Liu Qi, Yao Youzhong, and Wang De.

He actually followed Wang Yue. After fighting Xixia, with the extinction of his brothers Zong Shidao, he also withdrew from the Western Army. He was just a deputy general. Although he was promoted quickly over the years, he was different from Han Shizhong and Wu Jie. Their official titles were much higher than him. He was not like Zhang Jun, so his official position would not be too high.

Li Shifu, he has changed his name, Zhao Huan gave him the name Li Xianzhong, and is currently following Han Shizhong.

Wu Lin and Wu Jie, a smart man, stepped on two boats, followed Zhong Wei as a warlord on Jingyuan Road, while sending his brother to Wang Yue to show his loyalty.

Guo Hao, he is showing his loyalty for his father.

Of course, it was mainly because his father had no friendship with Wang Yue before.

The father and son recently fought with the Xin family openly and secretly, trying to completely control Qin Fenglu.

Originally, his father was just the prefect of Fengxiang and Qin Fenglu, while Guo Hao was the magistrate of Fengzhou. The two of them controlled the most important trade line between Sichuan and Guanzhong. They made a fortune every year when collecting taxes in Xianren Guanguang, and even had 10,000 well-equipped troops. The Qinfenglu commander Xin Qizong's subordinates were only 10,000, and the latter mainly controlled Qinzhou. But behind him were 30,000 elite troops from Xihe Road, as well as Xin Xingzong, the Longyou Xuanfu envoy, and the Guo family relied on Yao Gu's support.

But these are useless after all.

After all, Wang Yue is the real boss.

There is also Li Xiaozhong, but he did not change his name. After all, Li Shifu gave his name Xianzhong to commend his family to contribute to the country. But what does it mean to give Li Xiaozhong the name Li Yanxian? If it was not given the name Li Yanxian, it would be better to let him continue to call Li Xiaozhong.

"I know it's not easy for you to be in the northwest. The land there is barren and you can't make a lot of money a year, especially in northern Shaanxi and Longshan, where there are ravines and ravines. When it rains, even the mountains will turn into mud and wash away. If it doesn't rain, it will be dry. It's really not easy for brothers to guard the country's borders in these places."

Wang Yue continued.

These guys quickly agreed and expressed their loyalty.

"So, I want to give you a way to make money. What does Longyou rely on? Isn't it trade to the Western Regions? It has been more than a thousand years since the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions to the present. Didn't everything in Longyou rely on this trade line? But now that Xixia has controlled Hexi and cut off the fattest piece, we have only left to drink soup, which is definitely not possible.

We have to take back this line.

But it is not worth fighting with Xixia for this.

After all, the court has approved their apology, and King Xia is also a minister of our Song Dynasty.

It is indeed inappropriate to fight, but we can bypass them. We can not go through their Hexi and go directly from Qinghai, but we still have to go through Shazhou they controlled by them. This is still impossible to avoid them. Fortunately, I looked through the imperial edicts of the Xia Kingdom before and found that we had never recognized their occupation of these areas of the original Guiyi Army. Then this is easy to deal with. We can send an army to Shazhou to find descendants of the Cao family to rebuild the Guiyi Army. Even if the descendants of the Cao family are gone, the descendants of the Zhang family are fine. In short, both the Zhang family and the Cao family can do it.

But this caused another problem.

This expedition to search for descendants of the Guiyi Army will inevitably cost a lot of money. Who should pay for this money, whether it is the court or the people of Shaanxi.

I don't think it's reasonable.

After all, the merchants, not the court, were the ones who benefited in the end.

Therefore, my proposal is to form a joint-stock company, that is, whoever wants to take money will buy the company's stocks. This company has been authorized by the imperial court to have monopoly rights for trade in the Western Regions, which means that this company can only go to trade in the Western Regions. The trading market is located in Shazhou and Guazhou, which means that only this company has the right to transport goods from Xining to Guiyijun. If you are willing to traffic in the Western Regions, it is also possible. In short, this company monopolizes the trade rights.

The money earned every year is left in addition to paying taxes, and then the amount of stocks in hand is distributed to those who hold the shares.

Then the company paid for the Western Expedition.”

Wang Yue said.

A group of people were still confused, this thing was a bit beyond their understanding.

"The king means that we all pay for stocks and form a business together. This business pays for the support of the Western Expedition. After success, this business specializes in the Western Regions trade and distributes the money we earn to us? But I am sorry to be a little presumptuous. Isn't this Western Regions trade originally we were doing?"

Wu Lin said.

It is obvious that the best thing in this is him.

Others agreed.

Wu Lin was right. At present, the trade in the Western Regions was originally controlled by major warlords, but there was no joint business name. However, each company had a caravan, which was mainly dealt with by the Western Xia.

Wang Yue smiled...

"Did I tell you to pay for stocks?"

He said.

Wu Lin and others were confused.

"There is a kind of stock called "Danshi". I took the lead in establishing this company and I issued five million jin of shares. What's the point of giving you hundreds of thousands of shares? If you don't say it, I'll give you two million to my brothers first, and then take out the remaining three million to raise the stock. Do you need to pay for it? It doesn't need it at all! But when dividends are distributed, it's really a share!"

Wang Yue said.

"But what if three million is not enough?"

Wu Lin said.

"One stock is sold for one-month, but if the buyer can't squeeze it, can't the price of this stock be raised? Three million shares did raise less than five million guan at the original price, but isn't it enough to raise the price to two guan?"

Wang Yue said.

"But what if there aren't so many people buying it?"

Li Xianzhong said honestly.

Guo Hao suddenly laughed.

"Brother Li, isn't such a good thing going on?

Who doesn’t know that the Western Regions trade ended up making money like the mountains of gold and silver. It is inevitable that this business can make a lot of money. Maybe it will make back the stock money in one or two years, not to mention that it can be passed on to future generations. Since this is the case, let alone spending two cents, you can buy it even if you spend twenty cents.

Let’s go back and talk to the king, let the rich people in Chang’an, Luoyang and the river know this news.”

He said.
Chapter completed!