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At the same time, Liu Xieren started an internal storm in Yingchuan, directly changing Yizhou to Shuzhou, changing the capital of Shuzhou Jiangzhou to Chongqing, and changing the Yizhou Xuefu to Southwest Xuefu; transforming the entire Qinling defense line into Hanzhong and referring Hanzhong to Liangzhou; because Chenliu County is too close to the Yellow River defense line, Yingchuan was changed to Yuzhou. There is no doubt that Yingchuan, with Songshan in the west and Yingshui in the north, is better than Chenliu in defense situation; Yangzhou’s capital was changed to Jinling.

There was also a change in personnel affairs. Liu Xie personally wrote a letter to Zhouyi and named him the Marquis of Wulin. He praised Hu Zhaoxian in his words. Zhou Yi knew Liu Xie's intention and formally wrote a letter to resign and stated that Hu Zhao was the Minister of Zhongzhi Luong.

Liu Xie followed the situation and transferred Zhang Zhao to Zhongzhi Lugong, appointed Hu Zhao as Zuo Zhi Lugong, and subdivided the responsibilities of the three dynasties. Xun Yu was in charge of important internal affairs, strictly in charge of the officials and the two ministries of criminal affairs, and was specifically responsible for the affairs of the state and personnel transfers, official assessment, local garrison troops mobilized supervision, Zhang Zhao was in charge of commerce, industry, agriculture, and Hu Zhao was in charge of culture, education, medical and art.

The two departments of the Medicine and Education were transferred from the Chu Prince's Mansion to the Zhiluo Mansion, and upgraded to the Ministry, which was under the jurisdiction of Hu Zhao; the German Department and the Statistics Department were added, and the Internal Affairs Office was changed to the Internal Affairs Office.

On the basis of the six ministries of official, punishment, agriculture, industry, commerce and civil affairs, the Ministry of Medicine, academic departments, and eight ministries, the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the two ministries, the Ministry of Agriculture, industry and commerce is responsible for the three ministries of Zhongzhi, and the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the people, the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the people, medicine and academic departments.

The governor's office of each prefecture was changed to govern Lutai, and the governor was changed to govern Lutai. Each of the governors was established with eight departments of officials, punishment, agriculture, industry, commerce, civil, medical, and academics. The head of each department was the counselor. Each county maintained the title of prefect, and eight officials were engaged in officials, punishment, agriculture, industry, commerce, civil, medical, and academics. Each county had only a county magistrate and three Suiquan.

The Royal Bureau of Chu was added to the King of Chu Palace to be responsible for religion and the morality of the officials. The Statistics Bureau conducts six statistics on output value, tax, people's livelihood, public opinion, environment and population every year, and uses these six statistics to comprehensively analyze the operation of the Rule Administration. Among them, the livelihood statistics mainly investigate the income of the people. The public opinion surveys the satisfaction of the people in various places with officials and the court's rules, which is directly related to the promotion and verification of officials at all levels. The environment includes environmental changes such as weather, water and soil, and the population counts the number of people and the proportion of men and women in various places.

The garrison troops in various places that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Zhiluo Office were transferred to the direct subordinate of the General Administration and a garrison was established. All personnel arrangement authority was the responsibility of the garrison troops. The garrison troops in various places were only qualified to be transferred, and there was no right to appoint and remove the garrison troops and the garrison troops.

Liu Xie's internal political reform was later called Yingchuan Storm. After this reform, the Chu King's Mansion retained the establishment of the Third House and Six Offices of the Academy of Staff, the General Administration of the General Administration, the Military Affairs Office, the Legislative Affairs Office, the Law Office, the German Affairs Office, the Statistics Office and the Six Office of the Interior, which also became the standard for later generations.

The Yingchuan Storm formally determined the emperor's right to supervise military and political power and formulate national policies and laws, and the general of the Commander's Office must be personally appointed by the emperor and determined it.

After Liu Xie, the three divisions of labor arrangements were made in the later generations according to this division.

After years of preparation, Liu Xie finally realized his idea, delegated his government rights and managed the world by the Zhiluofu, while he strictly controlled the military power and the power of the government. He used the Governor and the Governor's Court to strictly control the integrity of civil and military officials at all levels. Once the Statistics Office, Governor and the Governor's Court discovered the administrative errors or dereliction of duty of the general, he would immediately punish him.

The Secretary of the Law of Hu Zhaohe Law was responsible for the two men, Liu Ba, who led officials at all levels of the Chu King's Mansion and the Zhiluo Mansion to jointly formulate the "Chu Law", "Military and Political Law", "Industrial and Commercial Tax Law", "Land Law" and "Hosting Labor Law".

In the formulation of the "Chu Law", Confucianism and Law are cleverly integrated. First, it is determined that no one can deprive others of property except the emperor, which not only satisfies the legalists' determination to conclude disputes, but also conforms to the Confucian idea of ​​imperial power supremacy. The crimes and responsibilities of Chu are ninth grade, and the first to third grade are serious crimes, and can be sentenced to death or lifelong confiscation, and private property is confiscated; the fourth to sixth grade are serious crimes, and can be sentenced to less than ten years of enthronement or less than three years of imprisonment, and half of the private property is confiscated; the seventh to ninth grade are minor crimes, and can be sentenced to a poker punishment, and the maximum penalty for a poker punishment shall not exceed fifty, and according to the age of aged or small, a person who is more than fifty years old and less than ten years old can be exempted from punishment, and only fines can be paid; it is stipulated that no one except Xiangyang Yinzhuang shall be allowed to privately store more than ten kilograms of gold, otherwise it will be deemed a major crime, and the King of Chu shall order the property to be confiscated.

The "Military and Political Law" is mainly formulated for officials and generals at all levels. First, the system of separation of military and political affairs is determined. Those who are good at Vietnam's military power are immediately removed from office and are convicted of a serious crime. Those who are corrupt and abused by the law are convicted of a serious crime or a serious crime, and those who are good at leaving their posts are convicted of a serious crime according to the circumstances. All crimes committed by military and political officials are all exacerbated.

The "Industrial and Commercial Taxation Law" is based on the "Guo Business Policy" and formulates business rules, which determines that private people can establish trading companies in various states or Zhiluo Mansions to meet the requirements; affirms that Zhiluo Mansion has the right to mobilize national and civil and commercial enterprises to participate in price balance intervention; affirms that new commodities created by individuals can enjoy exclusive manufacturing rights for twenty years, and can also be sold completely or separately from others; determines the division of agriculture and industry and commerce, and unified industrial and commercial taxes, civil and commercial taxes, civil and commercial are 10 draws two, and private merchants are 10 draws three draws, maintaining other support conditions for national and commercial enterprises unchanged; it is determined that gold trade must be exclusively served by Xiangyang Yinzhuang Zhiluo Mansion.

Maintain the existing agricultural tax quota, but increase the agricultural subsidy for people planting in official fields, so that farmers can obtain subsidies for planting official fields; stipulate that people can obtain additional subsidies for raising horses; maintain that farmers can obtain new official fields for ten years to cultivate farms and people can be tax-free, and at the same time, they can obtain one-time farmland reclamation subsidy for Zhiluofu; stipulate that people can obtain farmland recycling subsidies for ten years after planting for ten years, and set up sixteen industries such as iron, salt, and cloth. Private companies cannot enter without establishing trading companies. People who cultivate themselves, weave and cast themselves will cancel all agricultural subsidies and increase agricultural tax by 20%.

The Land Law formally stipulates that anyone can only trade land with the states, and shall not sell land privately. Clans must own collective land, and the collective land income belongs to the clans. The clan leader shall allocate and use it according to the Clan Law; stipulate that the upper limit of collective land ownership of each clan; stipulate that each household can own no more than 300 mu, and the excess land must be recycled by the Zhiluo Mansion at the market price; ordinary people and clan children can rent official land, and the lease period can be signed for ten years, thirty years and fifty years. The longer the lease period, the lower the agricultural tax.

The Employment Law formally stipulates that the minimum wage that long-term workers and short-term workers must enjoy according to the craft level, and the average wage of employers is about twice as high as during the Lingdi period. It stipulates that employers enjoy vacations on the first day of the first day and the third day of the month at the beginning of each month. During the holidays, the employer must pay the full salary. If the employer is forced to work on the holidays, he must receive double wages.

Since several major laws are mainly affected by the clans who are engaged in business in various places, most of them are state businessmen and civil businessmen, and they dare not blame the new laws too much. Even the very strict "Hospital Law" has no one opposed it too much.

At Hu Zhao's suggestion, Liu Xie also arranged for the Zhiluo Mansion and the Chu Prince Mansion to jointly formulate the "Clan Law", to manage the entire Chu area, register clans in various places, and strictly establish genealogy registration management and verification work. There are nine general foundations:

1. The total clan is less than a thousand people, more than a thousand people are small clans, less than a thousand people, less than a thousand people are large clans, and more than a thousand people are wealthy clans. Any clan with more than a thousand people must be divided into two clans, and the clan leader must be selected to rebuild the genealogy to prevent the clans from being too powerful, support the small clans, and adopt differentiated management methods for the wealthy clans.

2. For all the first three serious crimes that violate the ninth-class crimes stipulated by the Law of Chu, each clan must remove the criminals from the list and no longer recognize them as relatives.

3. If someone in the clan serves as a state merchant, the corresponding trading company shall not arrange other clan members to serve as management positions.

4. A clan meritorious service is set to be a ninth-class meritorious service, the first three are national tribes, the middle three are state tribes, and the lower three are county tribes.

The candidates for the national tribe who have been elected as patriarch can directly study at the three prefectures of Xiangyang, Jiangnan and Southwest. The candidates for the provincial tribe who have been elected as patriarch can directly study at the state institution, and the candidates for the county tribe who have been elected as patriarch can directly study at the county school.

The national ethnic group can cultivate 3,000 mu of land, the prefecture ethnic group can cultivate 1,000 mu of land, and the county ethnic group can cultivate 300 mu of land.

If any of the children of the clan violate the serious crime of "Chu Lu", the clan will pay 3 million yuan in the crime, and the clan will be demoted to one level; if some of the children of the clan will violate the serious crime of "Chu Lu" fourth to sixth grade, the clan will pay 300,000 yuan in the crime, and the clan will be demoted to half of the meritorious merit, if two people commit serious crimes, the clan will be demoted to one level; if a total of thirty people of the clan will violate the minor crimes of "Chu Lu" seven to ninth grade, and the clan will be motivated to one level.

If the clan children can serve as the three Dukes of the Zhiluo Prefecture, the four generals on the left, right, front and back of the commander's office, and the three main sacrificial sacrifices of the Chu King's Office, Shuijing, Xiangyang, Jiangnan, and Southwest University sacrificial sacrifices, the clan can be directly promoted to the third level; if the clan children can serve as the ministers of the various departments of the Zhiluo Prefecture, the governor of the provincial governor, the generals of the commander's office, the six offices of the Chu King's Office, the sacrificial sacrifices of the state and the state merchants of various countries, the clan can be directly promoted to the first level; if the clan children can serve as the Caoshi-level official, the garrison commander, the generals of the military commander, the minor general, and the clan can be promoted to the second level.

5. The imperial court is responsible for the selection of the patriarchs of each meritorious clan. The list of candidates for the selection of patriarchs of each county is set to three, and the specific appointment is controlled by the prefecture; the list of candidates for the patriarchs of the prefecture is three, and the appointment power is controlled by the Zhiluo Mansion; the list of candidates for the patriarchs of the state is set to six, and the appointment power is controlled by the Chu Prince Mansion.

6. All the ninth-class inner clans must set up clan silver treasury in Yinzhuang, the clan public money must be deposited into the silver treasury, and the clan leader must use the clan silver treasury to maintain the clan culture, education, treatment, and burial matters. The clans must set up enlightenment halls and medical clinics to be responsible for the enlightenment and education of young children and the treatment of diseases of clan children.

7. Any clan with no ninth-class meritorious deeds and a population of more than 300 people can receive a subsidy of 300,000 yuan per year. Candidates of patriarchs can be given priority to entering county schools during the examination.

8. Clans shall not involve more than four industries at the same time when doing business.

9. All small households who have lost contact with their own clan during immigration can contact the clan through local governments. After contacting, the government can pay the money to move to the clan gathering place; if they cannot contact, they can build their own genealogy, and before the population is less than 300, they can receive a subsidy of 30,000 yuan per year.

The Clan Law formulated this time clearly strengthens the control of clan forces, and through the tradition of Chinese people to return to their ancestors, the crime rate is suppressed and the support of the poor is carried out to prevent one or several families from dominating the clans, resulting in excessive uneven distribution of social wealth and expanding the average purchasing capacity. It not only supports the sustainable development of meritorious clans, but also suppresses the excessive power of wealthy clans. At the same time, it supports the development of small clans, increases subsidies to the people, strictly limits the phenomenon of self-sufficiency in the small peasant economy, and enhances the consumption capacity of the people.

In addition to the "Clan Law", the formulation of these five laws and regulations determined the legal basis of the entire Chu land, enhanced the status of the Legalists, and made sufficient work on expanding the consumption capacity of domestic demand and stabilizing prices. Whether it is agricultural subsidies and wage withdrawals for employees, they are the main ways to expand the actual purchasing capacity of the people.

It also reflects the governance methods for the crime of minor civil crimes and serious official crimes. Any crime committed by officials will be given first; control the amount of land owned by clans so that agricultural subsidies can be distributed to the people; encourage the people and clans to develop official fields, reduce the amount of private land ownership, and realize that the government controls most of the land ownership.

It balances the distribution of social wealth and prevents excessive wealth from concentrating into wealthy clans.

The five laws were formulated for a very long time and lasted for twelve years before they were fully formulated. However, many methods were implemented in advance in the summer of the 11th year of the First Taishui, such as labor wage increase, gold control, agricultural subsidies and restrictions on farmers' self-woven and casting, etc., and were first implemented around a series of measures to alleviate the economic crisis.

Liu Xie had reason to believe that with the complete formulation and implementation of the five laws, the land in the world will be concentrated to the state, and the people rely on long-term rent to maintain their livelihood and prosperity, while the forces of various major families are forced to push them into business, which can not only enable the people to live and work in peace, but also strengthen the strength of the clans. Relying on traditional Chinese family management, it can achieve low crime rates and wealth equalization in the country.

It can be said that the "Clan Law" shows that Liu Xie allows powerful families to appear, but it does not allow only a few families to be too strong, and it does not allow personal wealth to be too exaggerated, nor does it allow families to be so strong that the country cannot control it.

At the same time, according to the demand from the north, Chu land continuously sold a large amount of grain for gold and horses, and exchanged 60 million stones of grain and Cao Cao for mining authority in Qingzhou gold mines, forcing Chu land merchants to recycle gold at a price of 15,000 yuan for one gold.

With the support of Zhiluofu, the commodities of the nine states of Chu, including Jing, Yang, Xu, Shu, Liang, Yu, Jiao, Liang and Guang, were also concentrated to dump them into the north and Qingzhou in exchange for more hard currency, and within the scope of reserve exchange, the issuance of Chu money was increased and the possibility of an outbreak of the economic crisis was slowed down.

The new commodities in Chu land, rice, salt, oil, ceramics, flour, silk cloth, Shu brocade, high-purity white wine, soybeans, and even new cheese, wine, and pepper powder were also sold on a small scale, but the price was very high. Even if all the commodities were sold as Wuzhu coins, they were immediately exchanged for gold in Luoyang and silver was transported back to Chu land, causing the northern court to lack gold in just three months.

With the plague in the spring of Chutai in the 11th year of Chutai, the medicines stored in Chu and the water towers set up in advance in major cities, the two major water supply and drainage systems of the sewers have officially shown their effectiveness. Zhiluofu strictly requires all localities to first clean and monitor the water towers and sewers, provide styphoid decoction on a large scale, mobilize the garrisons of Liang, Yu and Xu to supervise the border, and do not allow any northern refugees to go south, and set up porridge sites and medical centers at the junction of Chu and the imperial court.

Chu began to promote horse farming. Because more than 200,000 ordinary horses were purchased from the north one after another and supplemented them to various domestic farms. After Chu promoted horse farming and ox farming, in addition to the large amount of manpower required to transplant and harvest, it did not require a very large agricultural population most of the time. In Chu, a large number of poor people who specialize in short-term labor also appeared. These poor people participated in farming during busy farming, and usually concentrated in various trading companies to participate in construction, water conservancy, transportation, manufacturing and other industries.

According to statistics from the Bureau of Statistics, this part of the population accounts for 11% of the entire Chu land population, about 2.3 million. In order to stabilize the farmers who lost their land due to the promotion of horse farming, after the five-year project plan formulated in the fifth year of Chutai was basically completed, Zhiluofu added a project construction plan of 2 billion yuan, and completed it in another ten years, focusing on six major aspects: expansion of Chu land water towers, sewer construction, Guangzhou construction, Shuzhou construction, Liangzhou construction and Chu land green brick road paving, with a total of more than 60 projects, involving more than 20 aspects.

Some plans that encountered less resistance in the Clan Law have also begun to be promoted first, and more than 300 larger clans in Chu were registered to supervise the population and actual land area, and to master the education and choice of the patriarch.

After the establishment of the Interior Affairs Office of the King of Chu, the Finance Department of the King of Chu began to operate the finance of the King of Chu. First, the supervision and manufacturing department was established to monitor the manufacturing process of special items for the King of Chu in various places. The Chutian Trading Company was rectified and the operation scope was controlled in four aspects: furniture, jewelry, wine and porcelain. The "King of Chu Internal Affairs Law" stipulated that the financial income of the King of Chu included the annual allocation of 60 million yuan from Zhiluo Mansion, 10% of the taxes in Jingzhou, 10% of the taxes in Jinling, 10% of the profits of Chutian Trading Company and the income of twelve farms (total of 36,000 acres of land) located in Xiangyang, Fancheng, Nanchang, Changsha and Wujun. Chutian Trading Company, farms and other Chu King industries do not need to pay taxes to Zhiluo Mansion, and they shall not expand to other industries.

The military expenditure of the Imperial Guards is no longer independently allocated by the King of Chu Palace, but is uniformly allocated by the Commander's Office, which still ensures that the average annual salary of the Imperial Guards is 20% higher than that of the average level of the Chu Army.

After obtaining a large amount of gold, the Zhiluofu began to issue an increase in the annual minting volume of Chu coins, completely changed the payment method of annual salary in Chu, no longer used the combination of grain and Chu coins, and used Chu coins in a unified manner to increase the annual salary of officials, ensure that the annual salary of officials is twice that of the north, implement the policy of high salary and integrity, and at the same time, the annual salary allowances for various institutions of wine, scholars, doctors and good craftsmen in various places are correspondingly increased.

Due to the unstable grain prices in the north for many years, Liu Bei once learned the method of combining Wuzhu coins with grain to pay annual salary. After the Zhiluofu significantly increased the annual salary of military and political officials and talents at all levels, a large number of bachelors, doctors and craftsmen in the north admired the Chu land to govern Nantou, which made Liu Bei be forced to increase the annual salary of officials and increase the annual salary of Wuzhu coins to make up for financial resources. However, because there was no concept of gold reserves in the north, the excessive amount of Wuzhu coins was issued, resulting in the depreciation of Wuzhu coins, which dropped from the initial 180,000 yuan exchanged for one kilogram of gold to 220,000 yuan.

Zhiluofu formulated strategies accordingly, warning merchants from all over the country to avoid using Wuzhu coins and temporarily stop using Wuzhu coins, prompting merchants from the north and south to turn to using Chu coins. At the same time, it is stipulated that all northerners who go to the south to seek jobs will be issued subsidies for family relocation once they work in the south, and further encourage northern talents and their families to move to the south.

The court's economy was almost collapsed because of the attack on the Chu money. Sun Shao tried his best to be Zhang Zhao's opponent, and he had to let Liu Bei transfer Zhuge Liang back to Jinyang from Jizhou to handle affairs. Liu Bei knew that once Zhuge Liang was transferred to Jinyang, he would consolidate the strength of the Jinyang faction and make him try to balance Jinyang. The strategies of the two factions of Luoyang failed, but the situation was critical and had to agree.

Zhuge Liang was clearly aware that the high salary and stable Chu money system in the south would inevitably lead to the flow of talents on a large scale. Although the King of Chu did not send troops at this time, he used currency to fight against the north.

After returning to Jinyang, he immediately checked the treasury. Seeing the empty treasury, Zhuge Liang felt sad and sighed: Uncle Liu, although you are good at identifying people and can tolerate people, you are too incompetent in internal affairs! After thinking about it carefully, I felt that Liu Bei did not understand internal affairs, so I can only say that commercial wars like Liu Xie were too strange.

Zhuge Liang asked Sun Shao, Jian Yong and others to discuss the matter of reorganizing economic and political affairs overnight, and after he proposed the opinions of increasing the salary of grain, salt and silk, he immediately received support from Sun Shao and others.

Although the Wuzhu coins were depreciating continuously, the prices of grain and salt continued to rise. Zhuge Liang temporarily stopped issuing Wuzhu coins and instead used the three-item distribution model to increase the annual salary, which immediately stabilized the hearts of the court and the ministers.

After that, Zhuge Liang continuously promoted the planting of winter wheat, and through Guangxing water conservancy irrigation, controlling the Yellow River, and household registration, etc., banning the people from moving at will, and promoting agricultural recovery in the north.

Subsequently, Zhuge Liang secretly asked hundreds of experienced craftsmen to simulate the ratio of lead, tin and copper to simulate the ratio of Chu coins. After finding out the ratio, the secret made merchants privately cast Chu coins, quickly disrupting the Chu coins market, causing Chu coins to depreciate with Wuzhu coins, and stabilize the entire market to achieve mutual loss economic balance at a very low level.

After continuously promoting dozens of new governance policies, Zhuge Liang quickly stabilized the north. While the prestige of the court increased greatly, Liu Bei also saw the dawn and immediately promoted him to Situ, making Zhuge Liang, Sun Shao and Chen Gong aligned with the three Dukes.

Zhuge Liang rushed up quickly from the Jinyang faction and gained the support of old ministers such as Xu Jing, Sun Qian, Jian Yong, and the support of the original Jizhou and Bingzhou faction, which made him surpass Chen Gong of the Luoyang faction in actual power and further determined political stability.

After the actual power was further expanded, Zhuge Liang persuaded Liu Bei to forcibly promote the reform of reducing military power, reducing the millions of troops to 600,000, and increasing the cavalry and crossbow army. The ones that were weakened the most were Chen Gong, the army chief of infantry and the Jizhou military system taught by Leizhou. However, because Xue was given the name of protecting the Yellow River Defense Line in Jizhou, it used military force before Chen Gong and Cao Cao. The military supplement did not decline but rose, and quickly filled the military vacuum that appeared to weaken Chen Gong.

This compression caused the northern troops to decline, and the pressure on food and grass decreased accordingly, and more people also invested in agricultural production.

After being disturbed by fake money, Zhang Zhao was frustrated by Zhuge Liang. After running around for a long time, he did not stabilize the Chu money again. Instead, it further increased the depreciation speed of Chu money.

After Liu Xie discovered that Zhang Zhao was no match for Zhuge Liang in economics, he was forced to temporarily take over the matter of stabilizing the market value of Chu coins, abolished the original bronze Chu coins with high tin content, and recast the copper-level Chu coins with high purity. Due to the high copper content, the refining is difficult and the cost is high. In the case of Chu craftsmen with rich human resources and high forging technology, the south can still cast a large amount, while the north cannot cast a large amount. Even if the north can cast a large amount, the cost itself is high, and the market is disrupted relatively little.

Because the cost of the new copper coins is very high, the total cost of each 10,000 coins is the same as that of 14 taels of gold, so the exchange rate of one kilogram (16 taels) is set to be 10,000 to one.

Mobilize the silver reserves of Xiangyang Yinzhuang and Zhiluofu, and mint silver-based Chu coins with high silver content, and set them as silver coins. According to the silver content, the original Chu coins and silver coins were maintained at the exchange rate of Baidianyi. The Chu coins system was changed from the initial two levels to the third level of copper coins, silver coins and gold coin, and from the initial single maintenance rate of gold to gold, and the double-layer method of maintaining the exchange rate of silver, further increasing the stability of the currency.

The Chu coins that were previously issued were recycled on a large scale, and at the same time, Yang Xiu verified the merchants in the north who were responsible for minting counterfeit money. He immediately sent the dead soldiers from the Military Academy to assassinate all the six merchants in charge of minting and their families, assassinating more than 3,600 people overnight. Although more than 40 dead soldiers were lost, they also intimidated the northern merchants.

Zhuge Liang could not arrange for the court to carry out private production of Chu coins, so he had to temporarily stop private casting of Chu coins. Although the proportion of new copper coins is easy to simulate, the cost is too high. The craftsmen estimated that large-scale production in the south could be maintained for 10,000 yuan to exchange for one kilogram of gold. Northern merchants would definitely lose money if private casting was done. Even if the court arranged large-scale production, it might lose money, so Zhuge Liang simply gave up the idea of ​​continuing to crack down on the stability of the currency in Chu.

In this regard, Liu Xie was forced to eat all the fake money minted by northern merchants and Zhuge Liang's money minted by Zhiluo Mansion, and also suffered a great loss from Zhuge Liang.

According to preliminary statistics from the Statistics Bureau, the total value of Chu coins privately minted by northern merchants was between 640 million and 700 million, which directly caused economic losses of about 46,000 kilograms of gold. The depreciation of Chu coins in the entire Chu coins caused market chaos, and the Zhiluofu invested 30,000 kilograms of gold to recover Chu coins to the north in order to calm the depreciation, and the total loss of more than 100,000 kilograms of gold. Faced with such losses, Liu Xie was extremely distressed. In order to prevent encountering such problems again, Liu Xie asked Xiangyang Silver Village to engrave and encode silver coins to prevent large-scale fake money from appearing.

After discovering that it was difficult to forge the Chu currency, Zhuge Liang asked someone to copy the various new policies and strategies implemented in the south to revise the "Twenty-four National Policy" in response to the situation in the north. He originally planned to adopt a policy of support for business, but under the opposition of the Luoyang faction, he had to give up and focus the direction of the new policy on learning the regional economic model of the south. He promoted the promotion of Eastern wheat in Jizhou, Yongzhou and Yanzhou, and added a season of rapeseed or soybeans during the wheat planting period; in Bingzhou, Youzhou, and promoted the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry and increased the domestication of horses; the imperial court enclosed land to build farms on a large scale, mainly for the domestication of good horses; increased the production of sea salt, and promoted the reduction of dependence on southern salt.

At the same time, the Wuzhu coins were abolished and new Han coins were used. In order to prevent Liu Xie from minting Han coins privately, Zhuge Liang also adopted copper coins. However, due to cost issues, the amount of copper was slightly reduced, and the ratio of 10,000 copper coins to exchange for one kilo of gold was also maintained.

Due to the low silver storage in the national treasury, Zhuge Liang did not learn from King Liu Xie of Chu to cast silver coins, but in Luoyang, he established a Luoyang silver shop in Jinyang and printed the gold deeds used by officials of the Han Dynasty.

Without the support of a large amount of gold reserves, the gold deeds of Luoyang Yinzhuang were not large. It was adopted in the early Xiangyang Yinzhuang method, and it was forced to implement that the gold owned by merchants and the people must be stored in Luoyang Yinzhuang.

After hearing this, Liu Xie immediately sent a purple jade slip to ask the court to stipulate that merchants and the people would store their money in Yinzhuang, and they could freely choose Xiangyang Yinzhuang and Luoyang Yinzhuang.

Zhuge Liang naturally refused to agree, but was forced to agree under the threat of Liu Xie's strike and refused to sell grain, but restricted Xiangyang Yinzhuang from setting up a branch north of the Yellow River, and asked to change the grain price specified before the city was opened or the horse's selling price was changed.

Since the south has successively absorbed nearly 300,000 ordinary horses and 30,000 good horses in the past six months, there is no need for more horses for the time being. The stock of horses in the north has also plummeted. Liu Xie agreed to increase the price to exchange for ten stones of grain for one ordinary horse and fourteen stones of grain for a good horse, but he requested to open a Xiangyang Yinzhuang in Jinyang, Chang'an and Yecheng.

After several disputes, Zhuge Liang finally agreed to add Xiangyang Yinzhuang Branch in Jinyang and Chang'an.

Zhuge Liang agreed to Liu Xie's side that Xiangyang Silver Manor opened a branch in Chang'an and Jinyang. Those who store gold for large merchants in exchange for Xiangyang Silver Manor's gold deeds will be given three-thousandths of the interest per year based on the principal.

Zhuge Liang immediately panicked. He really didn't expect Liu Xie to use this method to fight hard. If Luoyang Silver Mansion was forced to follow up and pay interest, Luoyang Silver Mansion would definitely suffer losses. Although he controlled the gold, he would also have to transfer gold from the treasury to the Silver Mansion every year.

Liu Xie actually did not lose money. The biggest difference between Xiangyang Yinzhuang and Luoyang Yinzhuang is that Xiangyang Yinzhuang is the continuous lending of the bank. Due to the large scale of lending, the continuous increase in the issuance of Chu coins requires a larger amount of gold and money storage. However, the interest on lending is far higher than the interest payment, and the bank can still maintain profitability.

If Luoyang Yinzhuang follows up on interest rate hikes, it will inevitably start to add loan business at the same time. However, without the support of construction business, Luoyang Yinzhuang's increase in loans will inevitably lead to large-scale projects in the north, and the consequence is that the court is unable to repay the debts of Yinzhuang. Liu Xie's experience in the new policy of Chu told him that under the current productivity situation, it is inappropriate to use lending to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction, because even if the infrastructure becomes better, it will be difficult for the court's tax revenue to be increased for a long time. After all, in the era of small peasant economy, the basis of social profit is still agriculture with extremely low profit margins. After suffering a great loss, he was determined to intentionally induce Zhuge Liang to take this path.

After balance, Zhuge Liang asked Luoyang Yinzhuang to follow up on paying interest, while Liu Xie suddenly adjusted the interest rate and increased the storage method. Any storage time exceeding five years, the interest rate will be adjusted to five thousandths, and if the storage time exceeds three years, the interest rate will be adjusted to three thousandths.
Chapter completed!