Chapter 1,777 No Agree

Countless officials who had long hated Xiao Tuohui followed suit, but their words were not as polite as Wang Jing's. Just as the conservatives of the Song Dynasty scolded Wang Anshi, the officials of the Liao Kingdom now scold Xiao Tuohui.

Next to take the hit were eagle bonds and bonds.

After the war between Nuzhi and the Liao Kingdom, the scarcity of falcons became inevitable. This story brought about a wave of crazy demand for eagle coupons. The price of the top thirteen yellow eagle coupons soared from 5,000 guan.

In the end, it broke through 10,000 guan and reached the peak of 13,000 guan.

Countless large investors holding Eagle Bonds had not had time to wake up from their dreams, but suddenly discovered that there were more and more Eagle Bonds for sale on the market.

Zhao Zhongqian made a very accurate move, using liquidation to drive up the price of eagle bonds during the war between Nuzhi and the Liao Kingdom, and then liquidated all the eagle bonds in his hands.

In less than a month, the price of Thirteen Yellow Eagle coupons plummeted like a waterfall, from 13,000 guan to 2,000 guan, and the decline continued unabated.

Only now have people discovered that the falcon is just a plaything and a dispensable thing.

It was only now that people discovered that many eagle coupons actually didn't even have eagles, but were "futures" booked from hunters. The longest ones were even five years in the future.

This kind of chaos is obviously greater than the market demand. When the price was high before, someone must be supporting it, but now, that hand has suddenly been withdrawn.

Many wealthy people in Liaodong became beggars overnight, drowned in rivers, hanged themselves, and committed suicide with their entire families, all over the south.

The degree and speed of the spread of this turmoil in the southern states was very violent and rapid. Immediately afterwards, the people found that there was less and less imported money on the market, more and more silk banknotes, and prices were rising three times a day!

Depositors began to flock to various banks, withdraw their deposits, and exchange them for imported money, silk, grain, and salt that they could find, hoping to preserve the value of their assets.

In the end, even worthless items such as stoneware and linen became scarce commodities that were snapped up.

Many banks began to face the danger of bankruptcy and turned to Tongjin Bank for help.

The terrible thing is that the Liao Kingdom is about to enter the lean season, and food shortages begin again.

At this time in previous years, the price of food was already going to rise. However, as there was no shortage of silk banknotes and everyone was rushing to buy them, food prices first soared, and soon reached a price as high as five guan of silk banknotes per stone!

Panic began to spread, and merchants were reluctant to sell. It was better in rural areas, and robberies, murders, and house robberies began to occur in prefectures and towns.

Many upright officials wanted to stop such behavior and demand stabilization of food prices. However, what they triggered was more severe economic turmoil and panic buying.

In the southern states, the market is as depressed as ghosts. People in both urban and rural areas are in danger and even armed themselves with weapons. Except for food, the cargo of the shipping company is piled up like a mountain and cannot be transported. However, the rich spend tens of thousands of dollars just to get a seat on the ship and carry it with them.

The whole family, young and old, rushed to Zhangzi Island to seek refuge.

Remonstrances flew to Beijing like snowflakes. Xiao Tuohui undoubtedly became the culprit of this great change. Officials' calls for Wang Jing to take charge of the matter became louder and louder.

Xiao Tuobujia, the prime minister of the Northern Prefecture, Wang Shiru, the political counselor of the Northern Palace, Sheyelu Shenjianu, the right servant of Shangshu, and Niu Wenshu, the political counselor of the Southern Palace, jointly asked Dali Temple to close the case as soon as possible, and asked Yelu Yanxi to issue an edict to Wang Jing and return to the scene.

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In the bullet, Wang Shiru denounced Xiao Tuohui's five major crimes of violating the imperial edict, exceeding his authority and violating the law, slandering important ministers, bullying his colleagues, and disrupting the world, and demanded severe punishment from the court.

Niu Wenshu even recorded the miserable situation of the southern states in detail in his memorial, and finally shouted, "If the princes don't come out, what will happen to the people!"

In April, Renshen, Jinshan defense envoy Eterer reported that the Tatars invaded the country in large numbers!

Only then did Yelu Yanxi discover that the officials in the southern states were trying to save themselves, and the government orders were as scattered as sand. None of the military rations that should have been sent to Beijing were delivered!

Now Yelu Yanxi was really panicked and issued several edicts in succession.

He was appointed Grand Master Wang Jing and ordered him to return immediately to take charge of affairs and take full charge of the affairs of Tokyo and South Campus;

Xiao Tuobujia, the prime minister of the Beiyuan, was given full responsibility for the affairs of Beijing and the Beiyuan, and personally took charge of Dali Temple to resolve the Xiao Tuohui case as soon as possible.

He ordered Yelu Shenjianu to raise supplies for the Changchun army, and together with Yelu Dabeinu, he led the army in front of the palace, the army in the palace tents, the Xi army, and the Han army to the Jinshan battlefield.

Wang Jing received the edict but did not come back immediately. Instead, he issued another memorial.

In the second memorial, Wang Jing explained the actual situation of the southern states, stated the consumption of state funds and the difficulties in raising funds in recent years, discussed in detail the deficit of officials, and told Yelu Yanxi that the southern states

In recent years, the state has been burdened with heavy burdens and its people have been depleted. To quell the unrest now, the only way is to allow officials to use iron factory bonds to offset their accounts, in order to quell the bond run;

Cast iron coins to exchange for silk banknotes, and at the same time increase the scale of trade with the Song Dynasty, so that the currency has a credit value again, and the currency circulation volume matches the circulation volume of goods, so as to suppress the depreciation of silk banknotes and the rise in prices;

At the same time, we must severely crack down on the hoarding of grain, and the court must open warehouses to release grain until the autumn harvest in September.

Fully open to prohibited materials such as Dongzhu, medicinal materials, animal skins, good horses, steel, ore, etc., free trade with the Song Dynasty, and urgent exchange of food.

If you don't agree to these points, even if you make a comeback, there will be nothing you can do.

The relevance of this memorial was so important that Yelu Yanxi had no choice but to order Yelu Dabeinu to lead his army to Jinshan, while he himself returned to Beijing to convene officials to discuss it.

It should be said that Wang Jing's memorial was pragmatic, especially regarding the conversion between long-term bond redemption and centralized redemption, which made the courtiers understand that Xiao Tuohui had a reputation for being capable, but he could only develop some pastures and fertile land.

When it comes to finance, Xiao Tuohui is a complete visionary and a complete stick!

This is a man-made disaster!

Yelu Yanxi showed the ruthlessness and iron-bloodedness of a politician.

In Renyin, Dali Temple quickly completed the process, and Xiao Tuohui corrected the imperial edict and executed the whole family.

Xiao Tuohui was the sixth generation grandson of the prime minister of the Liao Dynasty. Before his death, he still wrote a suicide note to remind Yelu Yanxi to pay attention to the traitors in the court, naming the four names of Emperor Taishu, Wang Jing, Xiao Fengxian and Asu.

Before Yelu Hongji's personal expedition, he arranged for Asu to be in charge of the Privy Council and Etle to be in charge of the frontline military affairs. All the ministers thought it was appropriate, but Xiao Tuohui remained silent.

Yelu Hongji asked at that time: "Why don't you speak?"

Xiao Tuohui said: "Etle is cowardly and loses his affairs; Asu is talented but greedy, which will lead to disaster. Use it as a last resort, and defeat will be better than disaster."

Yelu Hongji also lamented: "Tuo Hui, although Wei Zheng cannot pass, I hate that I cannot be as good as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty."

However, unlike the time when he was demoted to a commoner, Xiao Tuohui was a great sage in everyone's eyes before, but today he has become a traitor that everyone wants to beat.

If Wang Jing's method is followed, the treasury will still be empty for three years. Fortunately, the idea of ​​exchanging iron money for silk banknotes is a good one. Today's silk banknotes are almost worthless. The court allows exchange at a certain exchange rate, which can not only control prices but also calm disputes.

, while the common people were being ferociously plundered by the imperial court, they also had to be grateful to the imperial court.

However, these are too slow. The only measure that can really achieve immediate results is to open up trade and ask the big brother of the Song Dynasty for help.

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After receiving the letter of credence from the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty court was in an uproar.

You have a long face, you are too long!

The Liao Dynasty fully opened up coastal prefectures and counties, lifted all prohibitions, and requested the Song Dynasty to send large quantities of grain, in exchange for the Song Dynasty's surplus supplies for the precious resources of the Liao Kingdom.

The exchange of iron money for silk money, when the Liao Kingdom was in a tight military situation and in urgent need of steel, was undoubtedly what Situ said, choosing the less bad choice among two bad choices.

The Liao Kingdom's ore exports allowed the Song Dynasty to take advantage of it!

Diatomaceous earth is now used as a sustained-release agent for nitrating explosives and an important component of shaping agents. The main production area in the Song Dynasty is in Sichuan and Guangdong, and the transportation cost is extremely high.

The Chen Yi family, the former governor of the Liao Kingdom, is now the main exporter of diatomite. The diatomite from the Liaodong Peninsula is of extremely high quality and has low transportation costs. It is a material that the Song Dynasty has always hoped to import in large quantities.

Now that the Liao Kingdom has opened up this gap, it can open up its supply.

Not to mention these, the luxury goods of the Song Dynasty that were hoarded in the Liao Shipping Department were falling day by day.

Even if the Song Dynasty used grain to exchange for it, they would still be able to make a profit!

Where is this damn logic?!

The key is that the attitude of the Liao Kingdom this time can be described as servile, which made the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty feel comfortable.

Cai Jing, in high spirits, read out the Liao Dynasty's credentials at the meeting of the two governments, preparing to encourage the two governments to agree to this plan.

However, Su You's telegram soon reached Bianjing, and his suggestion was not to agree.

All the ministers are going crazy, don’t you agree?

It's such a great thing, why don't you agree?

Soon, Su You's second telegram arrived, detailing the reasons for not agreeing.

Are you stupid? At this time, I, the Song Dynasty, should be asking for prices all over the place. Why should we agree as soon as the Liao people ask? This obviously hasn't pushed them to their bottom line!

The imperial court should immediately send officials to negotiate with the Liao people.

My suggestion is that the Song Dynasty can agree to these terms in principle, and can even directly provide "free" assistance of one to two million yuan, but it must have several additional conditions!

First, the Liao State needs to return the territory of the Song Dynasty that it has unreasonably occupied over the years, especially the 700-mile border ceded during the Anshi period.

The border between the two countries must be restored to what it was before Xining!

At the same time, the Liao Kingdom had to cede to the Song Dynasty the area around Feihukou in the Taihang Mountains, Yingyang, Feihu, and Maitreya Villages!

Secondly, all the territory within the Yellow River was returned to the Song Dynasty, and the three military prefectures of Heqing, Jinsu and Ningbian of the Liao Kingdom were all handed over to the Song Dynasty!

On the Song-Liao border, from Baotucheng to Shuozhou, both sides used the Yellow River as their new national boundary!

Third, the above only solved some of the problems left over from history. After satisfying the Song State's two conditions, the Song State was willing to pay the Liao State 500,000 guan of money and agreed to provide economic assistance in exchange for the Liao State's Baozhou along the Yalu River.
Chapter completed!