The next morning, Li Tong invited his brother to have breakfast and learned about the current situation in Shuzhong.

Shuzhong is an important supplement to Guanzhong. Even if the Shendu court blocks the exchanges and contacts between Daxing and Taiwan, it is impossible to cut off the communication between Guanzhong and Shuzhong due to geographical reasons.

Previously, Yao Yuanchong mentioned that he would recruit the King of Han to Chang'an at an appropriate time to strengthen the control and management of Xingtai over Shuzhong. Therefore, this time Li Guangshun entered Beijing, not only escorting the princess of the Fan Kingdom, but also the main purpose was to formally incorporate Shuzhong into the structure of the Daxingtai.

Although the court did not have a clear order to place Shuzhong into Shaanxi Road, it could not prohibit Daxingtai's actual control over Shuzhong. Unless the court could send a candidate for the identity, status, and even authority, to take over Shuzhong to replace Li Guangshun.

There are not many such people. They are just Li Dan's sons, but a few Xiao Dou Ding can only take his posts from afar. In particular, they need ministers with deep talent and high-profile management, at least they must be at the level of Li Zhaode and Di Renjie.

But not to mention Li Zhaode, who has been undermined, it is impossible for Di Renjie to leave the capital under such a situation in the North Korean situation. Cui Xuanwei just died, and no matter what the cause of his death, it makes the situation in the North Korean situation confusing. Even if Di Renjie is willing to leave the capital, relying solely on the prestige of Emperor Li Dan, it is not enough to preside over the adjustment of the order of the North Korean situation.

Emperor Li Dan had another choice, that is, his in-laws and elders. But this involves another problem, that is, the eldest son, King Yu, Li Chengqi, did not have a mother's family, and Empress Liu's family was almost killed by Wu Zetian to destroy the clan.

If it weren't for the relatives of the foreign tribe of King Yu, who had not been the chief of Yizhou, any prince's relatives would have led the situation to the atmosphere of the battle for the throne in minutes. The brothers of King Yong have already made Emperor Li Dan very angry. If he was in trouble at home again, it would really cost him his life.

In fact, this kind of signs are now there. For example, Wang Meichang had a lot of trouble in the gods before, and later he entrusted King Yong to avoid being exiled to the remote side.

Now that Daxingtai is founded, it is absolutely not suitable to continue to stay in Xingtai with his identity. Shendu does have a special order to issue a call to Chang'an to Wang Meichang. But it is not Li Tong who wants to make trouble deliberately. Wang Meichang came to ask for a meeting himself and was unwilling to return to Shendu to serve, hoping to continue to stay in Xingtai.

Li Tong had no reason to refuse this, and generously appointed Wang Meichang as the official Wannian County Magistrate. As for Xu Jing, the son of Xu Jingzong who originally planned to be appointed, he served as the chief clerk.

Wang Meichang has the ability and moral character, but in the position of Wannian County Magistrate, she is really not idle. She has tough and merciless methods and changes in her attitude stage.

Dou Xiaochen of Dou family had returned to the capital before, and Wang Meichang led the county government yamen runners to rule the villages and severely rectified the appearance of the city. In order to facilitate entry and exit, some noble families were severely punished by Wang Meichang.

After Dou Xiaochen inherited the title of Duke of Shen, Wang Meichang became an envoy of sanitation and wandered around the surrounding areas of the nobles of Chang'an. If the plants on the street were destroyed, they would be punished. If the plants inside and outside the courtyard were too dense, that would be even more amazing. What would you hide with shade? Just take them into the county government for interrogation.

Wang Meichang handles the case entirely based on his will, which is naturally not good. But Li Tong really doesn't want to interfere with this kind of resentment, so he advises Wang Meichang to be more generous. After all, it is thunder to persuade people to be generous. As long as he can ensure that basic government affairs are not frustrated, he will be within the tolerance standard.

After all, it was Emperor Li Dan who was too passionate and weak in housework and did not establish a tough image of being the same, which made these relatives each develop many petty resentment.

Putting aside these emperors’ family affairs, Li Guangshun was also in an orderly manner when talking about the situation in Shuzhong. He may not be able to do things, but he is better at doing things with care.

Moreover, due to its closed environment and itself far from the interests of the court, the officials in the matter were able to focus on the matter and not be disturbed by the turmoil of the outside world. The politics was still clear and the people's livelihood was stable. The situations were summarized and they were not lost as a condition for a stable rear.

Li Tong was also quite pleased with the situation in Shuzhong. What the big industry and Taiwan currently need is this kind of supplement that can effectively help, rather than entanglement of interests. Although there are many benefits but a lot of troubles.

Although the Chengdu Plain in Shu is also known as the Tianfu, the harsh logistics environment around it is not conducive to large-scale external transfer of money and grain. If it is controlled by conventional means, it will not be enough to become a large granary in Guanzhong, and the transportation conditions are really not met.

However, Shuzhong has abundant resources and is suitable for storing and the external environment is relatively safe, which is an advantage that other regions cannot match. Under normal circumstances, Shuzhong's advantage can make it an excellent refuge, and if there is chaos around it, you can take refuge in it.

Nowadays, with new things like Feiqian, which have certain financial attributes, appear in the current situation, Shuzhong can also serve as the capital vault of Feiqian and become an excellent acceptance center.

The power of finance or capital is of course not strong enough to become the lifeline of a country under the current level of productivity in the Middle Ages. Otherwise, all dynasties would not have focused on agriculture and suppression of commerce.

In the agricultural regime, the output of land is the basis for maintaining a regime, and any other way to obtain resources cannot be compared with it, because the land always has a yield without losing its subsidies. The demise of any Central Plains dynasty is related to the gains and losses of land policies, even if it is too much self-interested and destroyed by the Western Jin Dynasty, which was foreign.

Of course, it is undeniable that the rational application of commercial policies is also a major supplement to the shortcomings of the imperial court's administrative measures. Especially, the Tang Dynasty, a powerful empire with a vast territory and a long front, and the solemn agricultural-based administrative measures are far from enough to maintain long-term and effective rule.

Li Tong's idea of ​​building Chengdu into a Jindu did not start with a moment. When he proposed the concept of flying money, he had relevant ideas in his mind. However, at that time, he had just ended his mourning period and was still facing a problem with uncertain future. Even if he had ideas, he had no conditions to try.

Although the conditions are not fully ripe now, at least they have great autonomy and some ideas can be relaxed and tried.

After the personnel adjustment in Shuzhong, the Taiwan-Taiwanese government came up with a comprehensive plan after full weighing. As for the moment, Li Tong discussed some specific ideas with Li Guangshun: "In the future, the trade affairs of Shuzhong connecting all parties must be coordinated and supervised. Later, the Taiwan-Taiwanese government will add a municipal service to the Great Governor's Office in Yizhou, collect taxes, use gold and silver as money, and collect money."

"Gold and silver are money? How will money be used if silk?"

Li Guangshun was a little puzzled after hearing this and asked.

"Silk money is still used as usual, without disturbing people's livelihood. It's just that when the government specifies the amount, it depends on gold and silver as the standard."

Precious metals such as gold and silver have been used as currency for a long time, but are only used as a high-scarce raw material, either to make luxury objects, or to store. On the one hand, gold and silver do not have a long-term stable output. On the other hand, if gold and silver are used as currency, their physical properties determine that it is difficult for the court to make any moves.

Using copper as money and plundering people's wealth by indiscriminately committing new money is also a long-standing tradition of the Central Plains regime, the most obvious of which is the Wei, Jin and Three Kingdoms period.

In addition to fighting for power on the battlefield, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu also changed their rules in the financial field. Who gave the money worse? The Wei State made a new Wuzhu, and the Wu State made a big money of ten, and the Shu State could still play like this. When he saw that he was stingy, he was stingy, and I was just a thousand. The credit of such coins can be imagined, and it was all a joke.

Even regardless of the previous dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of this dynasty made new money to replace Kaiyuan Tongbao, but it was spontaneously boycotted by the people of Chang'an and even stopped the market.

The physical properties of gold and silver are stable, and their superiority as a currency goes without saying, and some people have noticed this long ago.

Wang Fangqing once told Li Tong that Lingnan, especially in Guangzhou and other places, people use gold and silver as money. One is that Lingnan has many gold and silver production areas, and the other is that Guangzhou is a concentrated foreign trade site. The components of buyers and sellers participating in the transaction are complex, so the requirements for currency are higher.

In order to be inferior to the Shendu court in administrative means, it needs to supplement business, stimulate trade and make transactions occur frequently. Using gold and silver as settlement currency is also one of the means to promote the development of trade.

However, this kind of change will inevitably require a process of acceptance. Therefore, Li Tong still started with merchants. Merchants were not engaged in farming and weaving, and relying on their own interests, their ability to withstand risks was naturally higher than that of ordinary people, and as long as there was profit, they would not suffer from business depression.

The pressure resistance itself is not weak. Even if the new method is inappropriate, the backlash brought about is limited. At least it is insufficient to cause large-scale social unrest. Once it is effective, it can obtain the most direct feedback and benefits, so it is naturally the most suitable experimental subject.

Li Guangshun naturally didn't think so far-reachingly about this. In short, he felt that the younger brother's decision was right, so he didn't make any comments on it, but he just nodded.

After breakfast, Yang Sixu came to report to Guo Yuanzhen for a visit outside the court. Li Tong raised his hand and ordered him to summon him in. However, he saw Li Guangshun on the side who wanted to speak but stopped, and said with a smile: "Brother has something to say."

After hearing this, Li Guangshun hesitated for a moment and said, "Guo Yuanzhen is indeed not weak, but his temperament is difficult to be respectful. I do not have a very clever way of observing people, nor does it mean that he is loyal and righteous. But such a strong horse still needs to be bothered and controlled."

After hearing this, Li Tong smiled and nodded, "Brother, I've recorded the good words."
Chapter completed!