Chapter 1,175 Monetization

Shen Kuo also thought: "At that time, the arrow will be fired and the war will no longer depend on anyone's wishes. It must happen."

Su You chuckled and said: "Don't think so beautifully, Xixia people are not vegetarians either."

"They won't just sit back and watch us become stronger. We will probably have to take advantage of it at some point."

"The victory or defeat of a war depends only on who makes more preparations and makes fewer mistakes."

"I don't expect it to be perfect. I just hope that the Song Dynasty can be more prepared than Xixia. That's all."

Shen Kuo asked: "What about the distribution of grain..."

Su You said: "If distributing grain to the four states is a necessary preparation to achieve our strategic goals, then no matter how difficult it is, we must do it."

"We even have to take into account the losses caused by those who are holding back North Korea and China. My ideal is that if this war requires millions of dan of military rations, we should be prepared to lose one-third. In other words,

We have to plan according to 1.3 million stones."

Shen Kuo was a little confused: "Then where to put it? If this part of the military rations is put in the warehouse, won't there be some... discovery that will hinder it?"

Su You thought for a while: "Just place it among the people, such as... places like Langdu Racecourse, Weizhou Longshou Village, and the Fifty-Four Fans in Liangchuan."

Shen Kuo thinks there is no problem. These places are a mixture of Fan and barbarians, but every house hangs the Yixi Weishe, Jinghe Longshi Shaobao, ah no, now it is the portrait of Longshi Shaobao, and the four o'clock and two seasons are divided into incense and worship.

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Su You only needs to say one sentence, people like Lao Fanshou and Feng Lizheng must be willing to go through fire and water without hesitation.

"But the funds..."

"There is no problem with funding. The price of grain in the Song Dynasty is 70 guan per dou, and the harvest in Shaanxi has been good in recent years. Even if the price of grain in the border areas is high, we calculate it based on the price of one stone, which is only 300,000 guan."

"Back then, I had several salt warehouses in the Weizhou area. They were used by Wang Shao to collect information, combat smuggling in Xixia, and regulate salt prices in Shaanxi."

"Now that the salt solution is enough to withstand the impact of external summer salt, and the intelligence work has been officially taken over by the imperial court, those salt warehouses are actually of little use."

"I will give you the funds to purchase grain. The price of grain is relatively low in Yuezhou and Jinghu. Just ask Dong Fei, Da Su, and Liu Si to handle the matter of purchasing grain."

Shen Kuo nodded: "Don't worry, it will be done well."

Suyou asked again: "How prepared is the transportation capacity? If wartime comes, how much temporary transportation capacity can be increased?"

Shen Kuo said: "The production capacity of Zhengzhou and Shangzhou is almost the same, but by then the land route will be available. This road has only used a small part of its capacity now. We mainly use the waterway."

"Light four-wheeled carriages are very useful now, and the mules and horses in Shaanxi are no longer as few as before. Last year, the purchase price of a four-foot-six-inch horse from Langdu Racecourse has dropped to eight guan. And Shaanxi's price for the Song Dynasty

The requirements for military horses have increased to four feet five inches."

"This standard has surpassed the military horse level of the Xixia Iron Kites. For the first time in the Song Dynasty, we have surpassed the nomadic tribe in horse administration!"

Su You couldn't stop laughing: "Cunzhong, you are just trying to deceive the situation by promoting strategy. You confuse the power of the God Arm Crossbow for city defense with the power of the individual soldier type. You have a criminal record."

"Military horses are not only required to be tall. At that time, Emperor Taizong's subordinates used human bodies to make troughs to raise horses. The horses they raised could bite people during battles."

"Of course these are just false legends, but at least it shows that the way war horses are raised is different from ordinary folk horses."

"The Song Dynasty has only just recovered from the embarrassing situation of scarcity of horses, but most of them are stable horses. Compared with the Xixia military horses that can really run on the grassland, they need at least one or two years of training."

"The truly excellent method is that we use the current technology of the Song Dynasty to carry out selection and breeding, and obtain a large number of sub-adult horses, and then send them to the grasslands for breeding. After corresponding military training, they can become three-year-old military horses."

"Hetao, Qilian, Tianshan... what the Xixia people occupy are our breeding bases and breeding bases for mature horses! This is one of the reasons why the Song Dynasty and Xixia will definitely become mortal enemies."

"These places must become our racecourses in the Song Dynasty. Their importance will not be reduced due to the increase in the number of horses in the mainland of the Song Dynasty, but quite the opposite!"

Shen Kuo was dazzled and said solemnly: "I will help Mingrun achieve this great cause!"

Su You smiled and said: "You are not helping me, you are helping the Song Dynasty. I am going too far. The one million stones that the imperial court has mobilized must be grasped and urged strictly."

"Your Majesty is very determined and has agreed to use Uncle Gao's sealing pile warehouse. Do you understand the meaning of using the pile sealing warehouse?"

The sealing pile treasury was a process by which Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty suppressed the heroes and placed the property and surplus annual income in several treasury, which was named "Fengzhuang".

It goes like this: "Shi Jin cut off the counties of Youyan and returned them to Khitan. I pity the people of the eight states who have been trapped by the barbarians for a long time. As soon as I have accumulated five million coins, I will send envoys to the northern captives to redeem the counties behind the mountains. If it weren't for me,

To follow is to scatter the government's wealth and recruit soldiers to capture it."

Later, in order to encourage the soldiers, he said: "This is the wealth obtained by bribing the enemy. The enemy will not take it, but you can take it. With your courage, I can regain my lost land."

Later, Wang Chuanshan discussed three disadvantages of sealing pile warehouses:

This is one of the ways to enlighten people's arrogant and extravagant hearts;

Let the officers and men be greedy for money and profit, and sit back and feed on Yan An's arrogance, this is the second one;

If I show the enemy that I have the wealth that I want but do not have the will to fight, then the enemy's fire will be a hundred times greater, and I will not fight but will take my anger on myself. This is the third method.

Later, countless people applauded this argument, thinking that "Yanyun was the old territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and Shi Jingtang ceded the land, and it has not yet been valued by Khitan, so why redeem it? What's more, if you redeem it today, you can sell it someday, and the land will be sold."

But it can be redeemed or vended, I don’t know why you say this?”

But in later generations, the U.S. Empire purchased countless territories. How to explain this?

There is another view that is directed at the next sentence of Taizu, which believes that "this regards the officers and soldiers as greedy and equal to the enemy invaders, and the enemy invaders do not bother to take the wealth, but orders the officers and men to take it, which is an insult to the officers and soldiers, and even more so under the enemy invaders. Why?

Understand the great righteousness, cultivate righteousness, arouse loyalty and anger, and compete with powerful enemies on the battlefield?"

I think this is a mistake in thinking and behavioral patterns: my goal is obviously just, but I want to achieve it with a vulgar pragmatic method; my career, which was originally open and aboveboard, has been done in a clandestine and wretched way, and I have finally become self-inflicted.

, making people laugh for eternity.

However, Su You believes that it is actually really ridiculous to deny the closure of the pile warehouse by using the effect to cause the cause.

"It is better to be in pieces than in ruins." This kind of thinking is certainly a noble virtue for individuals; but for the country and nation, it is absolutely a devastating disaster.

Morality is morality, politics is politics.

If we are aboveboard and have righteous goals, we will definitely achieve final victory? Is there no need for vulgar pragmatism?

Do you dare to say this to the black slaves in Africa, the Inca Empire in America, Argentina after the Falklands War, and Poland after it was partitioned by the Soviet Union and Germany?

Pure nonsense.

Whether the pile sealing warehouse is used to purchase land, or to arm the military or reward soldiers, it will at least give the country an additional five million yuan of "Yanyun special provisions". This is the positive significance of its existence!

However, later generations overturned the car, and later Renzong was frugal and spent a lot of money, gradually emptying out the pile sealing warehouse. It cannot be said that it was the fault of the founder.

After thirty years of hard work and twenty years of gathering, Wang Anshi and Su You finally helped Zhao Xu replenish the pile-sealing warehouse. Not only that, they also built another twenty warehouses and expanded the pile-sealing warehouse to fifty-two warehouses.

So much.

Including this year's Fifteen Ku Yuan Feng Ku, the total is 12 million guan.

This is Zhao Xu’s confidence!

Silk and other materials are not durable. Now the Military Aircraft Department is working with Huangsong Bank to implement the "monetization of closed warehouses" and gradually convert the storage capacity into a fund pool for Huangsong Bank's special subjects.

The great increase in financial capabilities also has such a need, but Jiangsu Petroleum has always been cautious and gradually started pilot projects from places that are least likely to cause turmoil. Dead stocks such as closed pile warehouses are undoubtedly the best targets.
Chapter completed!