After hearing what Wang Xiaoli and Wang Ruohai said, Li Yanxian said: "The issue of the company is so profitable! With this method, you can print as much as you want! Using money like this is much easier than collecting taxes from the people with great effort!"

Wang Xiaolie smiled and said, "Master, what's so easy in the world? When Emperor Daojun was the emperor, he had never printed a few coins, but he also cast a big coin of five or ten. What's the end? If you are not careful, the final printing of the coins will be waste paper, which is useless."

Li Yanxian said: "After I came south, I mostly worked in the army, and I didn't know much about the rest. According to what the governor said, this matter was not easy. How did we do it? Now, not only the Xiang Deng area, but also the Jinghu, Lianghuai area, and even the Jingxi Road area of ​​Liu Yu, we use our Huizi. I heard that even in Shaanxi and Hedong, people recognize our Huizi in Xiangyang."

Wang Xiaoli said: "If you can make it clear in one sentence, everyone will know this method. In summary, in life, you always have to trade goods. The so-called five horses for six goats. But the transaction in the world cannot rely solely on this method of making things easier, and money is always needed. The court has always used copper coins in parallel with cloth. In fact, in the people, money is used for trading. If you use copper coins and print them with paper, what is the difference? It is nothing more than that copper coins are not used as money, and it can also be destroyed to make copperware. In this dynasty, business was active, and there were many times more coins needed in previous dynasties. Copper coins were obviously not enough. In other words, the people have always lacked money. So as long as the currency does not become lighter, printing tens of millions of coins is not a big deal. Not only do we have money in our hands, but when the people have money, business is also more active, which is a benefit."

Li Yanxian nodded: "So that's it! It's great for the people to suppress and print money!"

Wang Xiaoliu said: "Of course it is a good thing. It's not easy to do good things well. To ensure that the printed money does not depreciate and that you can buy things all the time, the government will do more. Why do Jinghu, Lianghuai, and even Liu Yu's rule recognize us as a Xiangyang Huizi? Because as long as a merchant takes the Huizi, he can always buy the goods he needs in Xiangyang. And the price is stable and will not depreciate."

Li Yanxian seems to understand but it’s hard to ask more questions.

In most ancient Chinese dynasties, money was always scarce compared to commercial activities. The Song Dynasty's copper coins were low and the copper prices were high, which was even more so, and money shortages often occurred. Just filling the gap in cash was calculated in billions of yuan.

Under Wang Xiaoli's rule, the political situation is stable and business is active. In the past two years, it has almost become the center of business in the world and needs more money. Wang Xiaoli's tens of millions of chunks of money will not cause social turmoil. With money, the business activities in society will become more active, which can promote regular growth. Later, with taxes from industry and commerce, the currency flows back, a positive cycle will be formed.

The key is to ensure that the currency is stable and that there will be no large-scale depreciation. In the first two or three years, Wang Xiaoliu only had to ensure that he could pay taxes with printed banknotes, which would be enough to give the people enough confidence.

In more than two years, Wang Xiaoli printed more than 30 million stagnant of money. In addition to ensuring the expenditure of the government and the army, this money was also used to invest in a large amount. Various restaurants, inns, workshops, shopping malls and supply and marketing cooperatives all rely on the printed money. In fact, it turns money into assets and spreads it to society in this way. In addition, it also builds bridges, paves and builds engineering facilities.

In name, this money is Wang Xiaoliu's debt. Of course, in this era, this is just a noun.

Seeing Song Yan coming, Wang Xiaolei said: "The next exercise in the central army will not only make the army familiar with this new weapon and use this new weapon, but also in the actual exercise, we must see how many artillery cannons are suitable for the first army. I preliminarily stated that large artillery cannons are assigned to the division level, medium artillery cannons are assigned to the regiment level, and small artillery cannons are assigned to the battalion level. Whether it is suitable should be seen in the actual exercise. In addition, we must also determine how many artillery cannons are equipped with the first division, how many medium artillery cannons are equipped with the first regiment, and how many small artillery cannons are equipped with the first battalion. We cannot decide this kind of thing with a slap in our heads."

Song Yan said yes.

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Wang Xiaoli said again: "Of course, within a range, the more weapons, the better. For example, a division can be equipped with thirty or sixty, so how many twelves should be equipped with? This issue needs to be considered comprehensively. You who make artillery must also be clear about this."

Song Yan said: "Pussy, if so, the number of artillery required is quite large. For example, this large artillery requires two thousand stakes per piece, which is really expensive. If you try a division, you will have to get one hundred pieces, but it will cost a lot."

Wang Xiaolei said: "You don't have to think about money for the time being, let me think of a solution."

Wang Ruohai on the side said: "One gate is calculated based on two thousand guan, and one hundred gates is only 200,000 guan. It is not impossible to afford it."

Wang Xiaoli shook his head: "Senator, the account is not calculated like this. Cannons are not just cannons, but also cannons. Why do they use solid mules instead of horses? We have tried for more than two years, and in the territory under our control, we really can't raise good horses. Even if we try every means to buy good varieties, the horses born are not useful. Now the cavalry in the army mostly use seized horses. There is no way, so we have to use mules. One cannon includes mules that pull cannons, as well as shells and gunpowder, and eight solid mules are needed. In Nanyang, how much is this? Not only that, iron bullets used for cannons must be built in a special factory, otherwise the effectiveness will be greatly reduced. These all cost. One hundred cannons are calculated to be 200,000, and the others are 500,000.

Song Yan said: "This is still the money spent when equipment is used. When it comes to war, it will cost more."

"After a cannon, there will be tens of taels of gold." Wang Xiaoliu suddenly remembered this sentence. "If the cannon is equipped in the army, it is a monster that swallows gold, which is very different from before. If you don't have money in the future, you can't even afford a war."

Humans have a process of understanding the use of artillery. From the Yuan Dynasty to the maturity of artillery, it took hundreds of years to the time when humans fully mastered the use of artillery.

Wang Xiaoli's experience in his previous life can cross many intermediate stages. Even if he is not very clear about the technology, as long as he knows the general idea and goes through a lot of practice, the use of artillery can be basically mature. At least, Wang Xiaoli knows that artillery should become a specialized military branch in the army and cooperate with other troops to participate in the war. Instead of just using it to attack and defend the city, it should be used as field artillery maneuvers.

Artillery fires gunpowder, and artillery shells are made of iron, and everything costs money. Without certain industrial capabilities, it cannot be supported. An army without artillery is difficult to have a chance to win in the face of a mature army with artillery.
Chapter completed!