Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 459 When the cannon rings, the gold is ten thousand taels
After listening to Wang Xiaolie and Wang Ruohai's words, Li Yanxian said: "Issuing the meeting is so profitable! With this method, you can print as much money as you want! Using such money is more difficult than collecting taxes from the people." So much easier!"

Wang Xiaolie smiled: "Dutong, things in the world are not so easy. It's not that the Daojun Emperor didn't have a meeting, and he even made five or ten big coins. What happened in the end? If you are not careful, In the end, the printed money is just waste paper, which is useless.”

Li Yanxian said: "After I came to the south, I mostly worked in the army, and I don't know much about other things. According to Zhenfu, it is not easy to do this. How do we do it? Now not only Xiangdeng Areas such as Jinghu, Lianghuai, and even Liuyu’s Jingxi Road area all use our clubs. I heard people say that even in Shaanxi and Hedong, some people recognize our Xiangyang club.”

Wang Xiaolie said: "If one sentence can make it clear, everyone will know how to do it. In a nutshell, in this world, it is always inevitable to trade goods. It is the so-called exchange of five horses for six sheep. But in the world, transactions are always You can't rely on this method of bartering. Money is always needed. The imperial court has always used copper to make money, which is parallel to cloth. In fact, among the people, money is used for transactions. Use copper and use paper to print, as long as you can buy it Goods, what’s the difference? It’s nothing more than that copper coins can’t be used as money, and they can be destroyed to make copper utensils. In this dynasty, business is active, and the number of coins needed is many times higher than that of previous dynasties. Copper coins are obviously not enough. That is to say, the folks are always short of money. So as long as the currency will not become lighter, it is not a big deal to print tens of millions of coins. Not only do we have money in our hands, but the folks have money, and businesses are more active, which is beneficial to both. thing."

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

Wang Xiaolie said: "Of course it's a good thing. It's not easy to do good things well. To ensure that the printed money does not depreciate, and you can always buy things, the government has to do more. Why Jinghu, Lianghuai, and even All under Liu Yu’s rule recognize our Xiangyang Huizi? Because as long as merchants hold the Huizi, they can always buy the goods they need when they go to Xiangyang. And the price is stable and will not depreciate.”

Li Yanxian seemed to understand but didn't understand, so it's not good to ask more questions.

In most dynasties in ancient China, money was always scarce relative to commercial activities.In the Song Dynasty, the value of copper coins was low, and the price of copper was high, which was even more so, and money shortages often occurred.Just filling this cash gap is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Under Wang Xiaolie'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 it needs more money.Wang Xiao printed tens of millions of dollars, as long as he maintains his credit, it will not cause social unrest.With money, business activities in society are more active, which can actually promote constant growth.In the future, with the taxation of industry and commerce, the return of money will form a positive cycle.

The key is to ensure the stability of the currency and prevent large-scale depreciation.In the first two or three years, as long as Wang Xiaolie ensured that the printed banknotes could be used to pay taxes, it was enough to give the people enough confidence.

Over two years, Wang Xiaolian printed more than 3000 million yuan in money.In addition to ensuring the expenditure of the government and the army, this money is also used in large quantities for investment.All kinds of restaurants, inns, factories, shopping malls and supply and marketing cooperatives rely on printed money.In fact, it is turning money into assets and distributing it to the society in this way.In addition, bridges and roads were built, and engineering facilities were built.

Nominally, the money is Wang Xiaolie's debt.Of course, in this day and age this is just a name.

Seeing Song Yan approaching, Wang Xiaolie said: "The next exercise in the Chinese army is not only to let the army be familiar with this new weapon and know how to use this new weapon, but also to see how the army is equipped with this new weapon in the actual exercise. How much artillery is suitable. I preliminarily said that the large artillery is assigned to the division level, the medium artillery is assigned to the regiment level, and the small artillery is assigned to the battalion level. Whether it is suitable or not depends on the actual drill. In addition, It is also necessary to determine how many cannons a division should have, how many medium cannons a regiment should have, and how many small cannons a battalion should have in the actual drill. We can’t decide this kind of thing in a snap.”

Song Yan said yes.

Wang Xiaolie said again: "Of course, within a certain range, the more weapons the better. For example, a division can be equipped with [-] weapons, but it can also be equipped with [-] weapons. Then how many weapons should be equipped. This question depends on Consider it comprehensively. Those of you who make artillery must also be clear about this."

Song Yan said: "Zhen Fu, if this is the case, the number of cannons needed is quite a lot. For such a big cannon, one will cost two thousand feet, which is really expensive. If you try to get a division to be equipped with one hundred guns, it is a lot of money." .”

Wang Xiaolie said: "For the time being, you don't have to think about money, let me figure out a way."

Wang Ruohai on the side said: "One door is calculated as 20 guan, and [-] doors is only [-] guan. It's not unaffordable."

Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "Counselor, that's not the way to calculate. Artillery is not just cannons, but also mules. Why do they use mules instead of horses? We have tried for more than two years. In the territory under the rule, it is really You can't raise good horses. Even if you try to buy good breeds, the horses born are really useless. Now the cavalry in the army mostly use captured horses. There is no choice but to use mules. A cannon includes The mules that pull the cannon, as well as the ones that pull the shells and gunpowder, need eight healthy mules. How much is this in Nanyang? Not only that, but the iron bullets used in the artillery must be made in a special factory, otherwise the effectiveness will be greatly reduced. These all cost money. One hundred cannons cost 20 punctures, and 50 punctures plus others.”

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

"When the cannon fires, ten thousand taels of gold." Wang Xiaolie suddenly remembered such a sentence. "The army is equipped with artillery, and it is a gold-swallowing monster. It is very different from before. If there is no money in the future, it will not even be able to fight wars."

Human beings have a process of understanding the use of artillery.Hundreds of years have passed since the Yuan Dynasty had real artillery and the use of artillery has matured.It was probably not until the time of Napoleon that humans fully mastered the use of artillery.

The experience of Wang Xiaolie's previous life can span many stages in the middle.Even if you are not very clear about the technology, as long as you know the general idea, after a lot of practice, you can make the use of artillery basically mature.At least, Wang Xiaolie knew that artillery should become a special arm in the army, and it should cooperate with other armies to participate in the war.Instead of only being used to attack and defend the city, it should be used as a field artillery maneuver.

Artillery fires gunpowder, shells are made of iron, and everything costs money.Without certain industrial capacity, it cannot be supported.An army without artillery has little chance of winning against a mature army with artillery.

Li Yanxian said: "War is a waste of money. Even if there is no artillery, the money spent in war will be less? Not to mention anything else, the army shoots arrows, a bow is 75 renminbi, and a crossbow is 65 renminbi. Fighting How much will it cost to fire it as hard as it is raining? I think that although the artillery costs a lot, it may not cost more than the bow and crossbow."

Wang Xiaolie thought for a while, nodded and said: "It makes sense. Compared with bows and crossbows, artillery may not necessarily cost more. However, the role of artillery on the battlefield is of course comparable to artillery. Only stone artillery, bed Crossbows and the like can be compared with artillery, not bows and crossbows. With artillery, bows and crossbows will not be less used. How to fight future battles, we need to explore bit by bit.”

Song Yandao: "Based on what I've seen these days, after the army is equipped with artillery, the way of fighting has changed a lot from before. Many strengths of the Jin army have just become weaknesses. They like to attack head-on, but human flesh can't hold up to money bullets." ?”

This is the most critical.The tactics of the Jin army are to wear heavy armor and form a brigade to attack from the front.Ignoring the casualties, it continued.It is difficult for ordinary armies to deal with this method of warfare.But with the cannon, it is death to form a frontal formation.

(End of this chapter)