"Old gentleman, when it comes to business, young scholars have a private opinion: those who ruled the industry and business have always regarded business as the last business, but regard agriculture as the basis. To this day, this statement is still unbreakable. So it has been banned and suppressed, and regarded it as the justification. In fact, if there are no craftsmen in the world, where does this thing for people's livelihood come from? If there are no merchants in the world, how can this goods be transported and circulated? Can agriculture be the basis of industry and commerce be the basis of the country?"

"The fundamental purpose of industry and commerce is to drive people's livelihood, not just as a path for private money. The state should pay attention to it... The court should strictly supervise and control commercial activities, and vigorously crack down on the private sector of salt and iron by supervising commercial circulation! Vigorously crack down on private minting coins! Especially salt! The Great Zhou lacks salt, and the barbarians in the northern region also lack salt and iron. In the Great Zhou, they even set up a palm salt ban and implemented a salt ban. When the people take salt, they collect taxes and profits. The government and local tyrants compete for salt profits in extreme heat... They must completely suppress the ambitions of these tyrants competing for profits between the state and the tyrants!"

The old man nodded: "Indeed, both in our Daqi and the Dazhou next door, the legal system is not complete, and it can even be said to be relatively chaotic. The situation in my Daqi is particularly serious. My Daqi originally did not have much tax. The smelting of gold, silver, copper and iron, and the circulation of salt and rice in the official business have been excluded by the rich, minting private coins, selling private salt, and even smelting weapons. It is extremely difficult.

"Your Majesty and the court officials have long noticed the risks, so one of the main reasons for opening large-scale markets in Daqi is to better regulate the economy of Daqi and control the lifeblood of the country into my own hands!

"As for the salt you mentioned, His Majesty also attaches great importance to it. Our dynasty originally ordered people to cook sea salt in Cang, Ying, You and Qing Prefectures, but the process is relatively complicated, and the efficiency of boiling salt is not high. Last year, our dynasty built large areas of salt fields in the coastal areas such as Haizhou and Guangzhou, in the name of land reclamation, and used the latest method of salt drying. From the end of September last year to the end of last year, the amount of salt stored in our dynasty was enough to support our dynasty's use for two years. These will be used as materials to trade with the Turks, Khitans, Martins, Xi people... and so on..."

He Ruobi's eyes lit up and he asked, "Da sir, what should Daqi use this strategic material to exchange with the savage?"

Gao Feng was a little unhappy at first, but the question raised by He Ruobi was a blind spot that he had not considered yet, so he suppressed his temper and listened carefully.

"This kid's vision is different."

The old man glanced at He Ruobi with a smile and said with a smile:

"What are those barbarians worthy of my attention to? What they have, we have, and what they don't have, and I have, and what they can exchange for is cattle, sheep, horses, slaves, and women. Of course, if they are willing to trade with my Changping Wuzhu coins from Daqi, it would be better..."

While he was thinking, He Ruobi suddenly caught a glimpse of the inexplicable smile that was deep in his eye socket. He was as cunning as an old fox. He thought for a moment and almost shouted out:

"Yes, yes! I understand. If the Great Qi just wants to subdue those savages, it only needs to dispatch the border troops once or twice to suppress them with force! But the Great Qi is not. The Great Qi does business with the barbarians such as the Khitan, but the barbarians will be the opponent of the people in the Central Plains?

"Once they rely on Da Qi for material needs, it is equivalent to having a chariot tied up with Da Qi. There are people close to Da Qi inside and pressure from the Turks to expand eastward, so they can only rely more on Da Qi and become the front pawns of Da Qi to fight against the Turks in the future! Right?!"

"Yes, that's right, the Turks are powerful. They are now forming an alliance with our dynasty because they have no time to clone, but these people are robbers and bandits! The robbery character in their bones cannot be changed. Although the wooden pole is old, his successor, Asunakutou, is an ambitious and greedy person. Even if he has reached a marriage, what can it mean? How many princesses did the Han Dynasty marry in the past? Is it useful?" The old man gave him an admiring look, "But our dynasty will have to deal with the Zhou Kingdom in the next few years, and he will have no time to clone it. Therefore, our dynasty has also made frequent concessions to the Turks on the issue of mutual trading, trying to make the Turks take more advantage, and by the way, he will gather the naturalization of the barbarians except the Turks..."

"In terms of economic restraint, use the same method to pry the corners of the Turks, and try to make them stumble..."

"right."

"But why do we need to trade with the Southern Dynasties? Some of the Northern Dynasties, except for war horses, almost all of them are there. What are the advantages of the Northern Dynasties?"

"To be honest, the Northern Dynasties have very weak advantages. Except for horses, nothing else can bring much benefit to the Northern Dynasties..."

"Why…?"

"The strategy of our dynasty is to sell horses to them..."

"This... how can this be done? The Southern Dynasties lack horses. Once they have horses, they will make up for the last shortcoming of the army! In this way, they will be more wings. I heard that the Southern Dynasties have been preparing for wars over the years, and there are heavy troops in Wuxing and other places. I estimated that the Southern Dynasties could launch no less than 100,000 troops. The rumors released over the years were that the Southern Dynasties were about to attack Jiangling, but it is difficult to guarantee that they would not turn the spearhead and point directly at the Jianghuai!"

The old man pinched his beard, "Your Majesty had considered what you said long ago... In the past few years, our dynasty had a series of natural disasters, severe drought in Shandong, heavy floods in Jianghuai, and the Zhou Kingdom invaded again, and the northern border was not stable. The court needed to provide relief to the victims and mobilized generals and tens of thousands of troops to rush to the front line. For this reason... Da Qi almost devoted all his family's assets. His Majesty even demolished the Great Buddha Temple and the eight halls of Jinyang that were being built, and emptyed all the gold, silver and jewelry inside to be used as military resources.

"Even... Your Majesty had to make a "synthesize silver" for money, allowing non-death crimes to use money to atone for their sins! Until now, most of the Cang Mansions in our dynasty are still empty! There is no need to recover from two years. These deficiencies may be filled by the autumn harvest this year, but the people of my Daqi always have to eat. I ask you, where does the food come from? I tighten my belt, and even Your Majesty eat two meals a day for a while... But the Cang Mansion in the Southern Dynasty has surplus. Compared to horses, Your Majesty cares more about the lives of the people in the Jianghuai area.

"Saving people and horses, Your Majesty chooses to save people. Our court raised millions of horses by the Yellow River (this is true. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, nearly three million horses were raised along the Yellow River). I was afraid that I could not afford to give horses? My court said that he gave horses, but I never said that it was all war horses and there was one of the ten horses. It was good to have one of the ten horses (it was not that you could become a war horse. The raising and screening conditions for war horses were relatively strict. Generally speaking, it was difficult to have a good war horse in a dozen horses)

"... Even if the Southern Dynasty tear apart and attacked our dynasty, our dynasty has been fully prepared. Qin County, Qiaonan, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Hailing, Shouyang... Our dynasty established military camps last year, and nearly 100 passes were almost there! Recruiting tens of thousands of refugees as the soldiers of the palace, and ordered Pi Jinghe, Lu Qian and other generals to train soldiers. The armor that will be built in a month will be more than 4,000 sets of armor. If the Southern Dynasty dares to invade, the 100,000 soldiers in the Jianghuai area in Daqi are not vegetarians..."

The candle shadow is faint, and the atmosphere seems to have frozen.

These words were released, obviously suffocating these two arrogant young men.

They all knew that Daqi had a big move in China and had made many strategic preparations for the future, but no one would have thought that Daqi's move was so big, with a few heavy strokes, and it would have a vague momentum to encircle the overall situation of the whole world.

In the game of a big country, the focus is on long-term confrontation and infiltration of one rises and the other falls. The overall situation in the world will not collapse in an instant because the enemy country holds a strong army. There must be a gradual process. In the final analysis, if the country has stronger comprehensive national strength, the country can gain the upper hand in the game, or even wipe out the other side in one fell swoop! This is an eternal truth.

Among these two people, He Ruobi was undoubtedly the biggest impact. He was stunned for a while before murmured:

"Da Qi... has also begun to implement the system of government troops?"

The system of military troops was founded by Yuwen Tai to resist the general trend of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It greatly improved the military capabilities and production capacity of the Western Wei Dynasty, and became the key to the Great Zhou catching up with the Great Qi in just over twenty years. Unexpectedly... The Great Qi actually began to follow the example...

"Yes, but it's only a small scale, only Jianghuai, Hebei implements the system of government troops and does not expand across the country."

After all, if it wants to spread, the resistance is too great. Gao Wei took advantage of the times to make this strategy.

"Then Da Qi can also have more than 100,000 more armored soldiers..."

The momentum of Da Qi and Da Zhou seemed to be slowly flat again...it was so fast...

He Ruobi's original idea was to take advantage of the gap between the national strength of Da Qi and Da Zhou, and he could use this to quickly accumulate merit and reputation for himself and gain favor from the Lord of Qi. However, he did not expect that Da Qi had already thought of everything he could think of, and it was more perfect. This caused him to suffer a significant impact for a while, and his self-confidence was shaken a little, and he doubted his IQ for the first time... Needless to say, the shock in his heart was shocked.

"I originally thought that the national policy of Daqi was one hammer in the east and one hammer in the west, and it was urgent to fill it there... Although everything was very novel, it was really too unorganized. Some of them were playful and whimsical. Now it seems that my vision was too shallow... No, this layout of people is too big, so big that only the whole world can accommodate..."

He Ruobi was disappointed and his blood was ignited. Excitement and fanaticism washed his mind over and over again. He thought a lot, and then it soon became blank. He could imagine how powerful Da Qi would be when Emperor Gao Qi finished all the preparations!

It will be no vain to follow such a powerful monarch and follow him to establish something in his life!

He himself could not sense his voice trembling.

"Da Qi... won't watch Jiangling be swallowed by the Southern Dynasty in one go, right? Da Qi is ready to compete with the Southern Dynasty for Jingxiang, right?"

The old man looked at him in surprise, then smiled and said nothing.

He Ruobi also realized that his question was too reckless, so he stopped talking, but his face was red with excitement and his heart beat like a drum. His father's greatest wish in his life was to pacify the Southern Dynasty! Jiangling, military strategists must fight. Taking this place can bypass Hedong and attack Guanzhong! How could it be given to the Southern Dynasty... How could it be given to the Southern Dynasty... It is absolutely impossible!

Gao Yang saw that it was getting late and he had to hurry up, so he said carefully: "Although Your Majesty has a great vision and a very profound layout, the most fundamental problem of Da Qi has not been solved yet. Da Qi needs to be strong, and finance is the fundamental, and it is difficult to move without financial support..."

Gao Yang lit the table, "Now, Daqi household registration is in chaos, local government management is not effective, and it is difficult to form an efficient taxation system, as well as various tax and service systems such as military service and labor service, which need to be improved...

"The dispute between the Great Qi and the Great Zhou is fundamentally a struggle for national strength and a struggle for the general trend. The Southern Dynasties are not worth worrying about, and the Turks are not worth worrying about. Only the Great Zhou is the great enemy of life and death of the Great Zhou! The political situation of the Great Zhou is now in chaos, and the opportunity cannot be missed..."

The old man stroked his beard and nodded gently, "You are right. Dazhou and Daqi are indeed competing for the general trend. Whoever is overwhelmed will be able to destroy each other. At this moment, every day, every order and adjustment issued by the court to the national policy is fighting for fate!

"The Great Zhou is slightly stronger than the Great Qi. This is true, time is very tight, and this is true. But Your Majesty once said that you should eat food one bite at a time, and things should be done bit by bit. There is no prerequisite for a policy, or if the previous policy is laid out, and the trade will be implemented rashly, and there will be a big mess!

"I have never heard of the hidden dangers of the country and the dynasty who can calmly resist the enemy from outside the country is purely nonsense! What you said is the most urgent and most important thing for the Great Qi, but this... is not something that can be done in a year or two. Even if His Majesty is wise and wise, it is impossible to suppress all the opposition. If you want to walk more steadily, what you have to do first is to move all the big stones on the road!"

The old man sighed, "Although you are really good, you are too young after all, and you still have shortcomings in your knowledge and layout, and you are not very considerate... As for the national financial issues you are worried about, our dynasty has opened up a mutual market to solve this urgent need!"

"Although our dynasty has undergone changes, it has not been fully implemented. At the time of the late emperor, the slander ministers were in a country, the political situation was in chaos, the people were deeply harmed and exploited, and several natural disasters made our dynasty miserable and dying... Fortunately, there is still today. Since the country has become a country, it has not been a day since it was a country. He... sympathizes with the people and has the world in mind... How dare anyone who is the emperor's kindness bathes in one day?" The old man bowed to the west devoutly and said, "What I worry most is that the deceased ministers are withering, and no one can assist Your Majesty. But now, I am not worried anymore. If you two have the talents to assist the country, you will definitely be a dynasty in the future and will shine on the family and glorify your ancestors."

Along the way, a string of lights floated in the dark night, and someone rushed towards this side.

The old man stood up with a cane and said to He Ruobi: "Your talent in government management is not as good as Gao Feng. If you go the same path as him, you may be suppressed by him for the rest of your life. I think you have a very good overall view, a unique vision, and very sensitive. You should join the army. Pi Jing and his subordinates still lack a general. I don't know if you want to go. I can write a letter of recommendation to recommend you to this position..."

At this time, a group of maids and servants had already arrived at the door and bowed to him: "Right Prime Minister, the king cannot see you, so let the villain come and look for the right Prime Minister. Please move to the front hall."

"Okay... I'm right away," the old man raised half a glass of wine on the table, drank it all over his back, and showed the two of them the drunken cup. "If you have this intention, you can come to find me at any time and take this jade pendant, and the gatekeeper and the guard dare not stop you..."

"I wish you a bright future for you. I will congratulate you in advance, hahahaha..."

The old man put down his wine glass, and with the protection of everyone, he laughed and left, leaving only the two of them who were still in a state of trouble.
Chapter completed!