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Chapter 441 New Years
The new year is here in a blink of an eye.

Wang Hua asked the government servants to send a large amount of supplies to the migrant workers involved in water conservancy, and also gave them a few days off.

Another good news is that the two roads are progressing smoothly. The road to Daozhou has been repaired to Xunzhou, which is the mainstream of Yushui. Nanpanjiang, from Panzhou to Kunzhou.

In fact, at this time, Wang Hua's goal has been achieved.The road to the north, further north, will play an important role in helping Lingnan's economy, but it will not help Qinzhou much.Now that the goods have been transported to Xunzhou, why not go directly to Guangzhou through Yushui?Why go overland to Qinzhou.Therefore, it is the avenue to the south of Yushui that is helpful to Qinzhou's economy, which is the relevant counties and counties that Wang Hua is currently supporting.The same is true for the road to the west. There are Nanbei Panjiang, Dunijiang, and Yushui, which are only one of the five major rivers in China. Because of the small population and underdeveloped economy, their functions have not been fully utilized.Even in Xunzhou, it is already the main road of Yushui, and there are not as many boats passing by as there are on Jishui.

So at this time, Wang Hua was not in a hurry.

Let’s take it easy, and it’s good to do it for a year or two.It's good to stay in Qinzhou, why bother to go to the court to seek guilt.So I thought about it, and called some state and county officials, I will help you build roads, but you can't afford manpower.On the original two roads, six or seven roads continue to be branched to connect to various places.

That's good, anyway, this time the flow of people has attracted many people.So on the road to Xunzhou, several forks were separated, connecting Yizhou, Rongzhou, Laozhou, Yuzhou, Dangzhou, Baizhou, and Lianzhou, plus Hengzhou, Yulin, and Xiuzhou on the original road. It just formed a dense network with Xunzhou.The officials of these states were still very happy, but they didn't know that the construction of these fork roads was good news for Qinzhou.

After Wang Hua finished negotiating with officials from several states, a large number of houses in Qinzhou Xincheng were sold later.

Wang Hua began to ask Zhu Dian to pay his salary.

Salaries cannot be paid randomly, there are strict regulations, but rewards can be given, such as cloth, silk, tea, porcelain, even glass brought by big cannibals, spices and jade brought by merchants from various countries in the South China Sea.

Very rich.

But the hearts of the people are not enough, Xing Pi, the county magistrate of Lingshan County, asked: "Wang Inspector, why didn't the imperial court upgrade our state?"

Now there are more than [-] people in Qinzhou, so it can be justified in the Central Plains.Why is it still downstate.

"Magistrate of Xing County, how do you talk about upgrading? It has just been designated as Zhongzhou, and tens of thousands of people have been added to our side. Could it be that it is promoted three or four times a year?"

Everyone smiled knowingly, and they were promoted to the third and fourth levels. That was not the state, but the Dudu's Mansion, the third level was the Lower Dudu's Mansion, and the fourth level was the Central Dudu Mansion.But this can only be said behind closed doors, otherwise the officials of the higher-level unit Rongzhou Dudu's Mansion will not be happy to hear it.

Not only Qinzhou, but the entire Tang Dynasty is also good.If it is not about money, the Tang Dynasty in winter continues to exude the glory of the heyday.

Regardless of the consequences of cotton, it does make people's lives richer, although in this process, the people who benefit the most are the people who should not benefit the most.With money, consumption is also increasing, and trade is increasing, and there is a little effect of Wang Hua's work in the middle.It’s not very big, there must be. For example, large-scale purchases cost more than 300 million guan. What this stimulates is not 300 million guan, but economic development several times.Finally, someone realized the role of coal. At least burning bricks is cheaper than burning firewood, and the quality of the bricks and tiles produced is better.Even the imperial court began to use coal to smelt steel.

One is not many, but ten are many, so the economy developed rapidly this year.

But a problem loomed.

Because of the bumper harvest, cotton cloth fell to six yuan per foot, but the price of raw silk fluctuated. It used to be only eleven yuan per foot for medium raw silk, but now it has risen to about 23 to 25 yuan per foot.This is not like food, which is not attractive to people.Therefore, the silk is not traded.

As for copper coins, this is the basis of money.But there are also problems. The price of silk is rising, the price of meat is rising, and wages are rising. Originally, you can buy a catty of high-quality pork for ten yuan, but now you need fifteen yuan and twenty yuan.That is, because of the imperial government's action, Wang Hua transferred more than 100 million shi of grain into the Tang Dynasty, and the price fell temporarily, and the price was very fair.But that was the court's action. God knows when the court will say no, the food price will rise again.Of course, hoarding food is very cost-effective. The key is food stamps, and the trading volume is scattered together.With such a low food price, who is willing to hand it over?

So after thinking about it, it is better to turn it into copperware and sell it, which is more cost-effective than using copper coins.

In this way, a problem soon came up. They obviously felt that everyone was richer than before, and they were more generous in shopping.Buying things is definitely not a problem, the key is to buy things, and the merchants can't come up with enough cash.In the end, many merchants had to issue more flying money to use as currency.But flying money can't be sent randomly. If people don't have money when they exchange it, it will be a big trouble.Therefore, the customers who buy things with money are greeted with smiles, and the customers who sell things are ridiculed.

Some people have no choice but to barter with each other.Of course, this kind of primitive transaction is definitely not the way.However, the problem has not yet surfaced, even the monarchs and ministers in Chang'an have not noticed it.

But Wang Hua knew in advance, because he also has a lot of flying money in his hands now, and he had expected this situation a long time ago, let alone hoarding flying money in his hands foolishly in order to save the country and the people.Can it be saved?Therefore, the more at this time, the faster he can get rid of it, but when cashing out, he used to cash it out, but now he is waiting for a few days.

Don't wait, it will make more people suspicious.Some people are afraid to use flying money at first.But flying money is also a kind of currency, and flying money is basically used in large transactions, which also saves a lot of silk and copper coins.Once there is a crisis of flying money, there will be a shortage of currency.

Therefore, Wang Hua's family celebrated the New Year in three places this year.Wang Han celebrated the New Year with his parents and sister in Luoyang.Li Hong stayed in Chang'an.Because the subsequent operations required Li Gu'er to come forward, she had to stay with Li Gu'er. Fortunately, the Wang family in Chang'an also had a mansion, but it was a little far away from the palace.Later, Li Hong simply bought a small garden in Kaihuafang.

When she arrived in Chang'an, Li Gu'er was still asking when she would arrive in Qinzhou.

Food prices have come down, so I should be able to go to Qinzhou.

Go to Qinzhou?Li Hong was also taken aback when he heard this, will the emperor allow it?

She asked Li Gu'er to sit down, explained Wang Hua's arrangement, and then said, "Princess, you must not reveal it."

Li Baoer smiled, these families are not good, even the Tang Dynasty princesses are unwilling to marry, Erlang said that his father has the most noble blood in the world, but they are all good, being a royal family is like practicing people.I clapped my hands happily and applauded repeatedly.

But this year, the Tang Dynasty is very lively during the New Year, and many places have started to set off firecrackers. These are real firecrackers, and they are loud.

But over the past few days, no one has counted how much money was let go.Anyway, one-third of the families let off firecrackers.The children who didn't let it go were greedy, but they shook their heads when they asked the price, and finally endured the pain and bought a small skewer back.

There were more firecrackers set off in Qinzhou, and the elders of the Wang family looked hot and kept asking, "Wang Shilang, how much did you earn from the firecrackers?"

Wang Hua just didn't say anything, for fear that he wouldn't be able to sleep.Quite a lot, although a normal family only bought two or three hundred wen, and some only bought dozens of wen, but how many families in a Tang Dynasty?What's more, rich people don't care anymore, once they put dozens of coins, they will be gone.The cost of a small string of firecrackers is only two or three pennies, and it is at least ten pennies to sell to direct sellers.This is worse than stealing money.Back and forth brought him nearly [-] guan benefits.

There are also major workshops in Qinzhou and the sale of houses. Qinzhou alone has brought him more than 500 million yuan in income.

Poor Li Hong couldn't sleep all night after hearing the news.Then the remote control handed out New Year's money, and Wang Yi gave out [-] yuan for gambling.But let Wang Hua's mother confiscate more than half of it immediately, and this daughter-in-law is messing around.Wang Hua's mother also had [-] coins. This was for her to buy clothes. What kind of clothes cost [-] coins?

Then each of the three and four phoenixes gave [-] yuan, which was pocket money.Dare to have more pocket money than the princess and prince.

In addition, he gave Mo Hegan 50 yuan. Although he did not have Mu Zili's ambitions, Li Hong always felt that the thousands of soldiers in the bloody battalion and Mo Hegan's management in the Shannan states for the past two years were of great importance to Wang Hua. very important.

And Mo Hegan lived up to Wang Hua's trust, he is a very smart person.Now my future is with Wang Huashuan, don't look at Wang Hua's beauty, but it's okay to take up a false position, because I don't want to be loyal to Webster, so don't even think about gaining more real power.But Webster's ambition and Li Xian's mediocrity made him faintly feel that something big was about to happen.

Therefore, it was carefully managed in Shannan, and even deliberately found trouble with several officials who questioned them.There was an official who deliberately made a group of soldiers drunk and blocked the door of his house for a day to prevent him from coming out.The official appealed, to no avail.They all thought that the blood battalion soldiers were depressed now, but instead ordered the officials not to embarrass them.

After hearing the news, no one in the Shannan area asked about the flat and long triangle belt from Shanzhou to Shancheng to Hezhou.Since he didn't ask questions, Mo Heqian usually gave some gifts to relevant officials.It was originally the place where the Tang Dynasty and Tubo bordered. It was not in the Hexi Corridor, and it was dominated by ethnic minorities. In the past, the imperial court managed this place mainly to be kind, and not to actively sow right and wrong.Moreover, a Tubo army came to make a plan, and Mo Hegan led the soldiers to fight head-on, and fled like a dog in the water.The scale of this battle was small, and only hundreds of Tubo people were killed, but people realized the soldiers and prestige of the Scarlet Battalion, and the border calmed down as soon as they entered.The people in the territory did not dare to make trouble.Isn't the soldiers of the Scarlet Battalion stationed here to defend the Tang Dynasty and deal with the Tubo people?
Therefore, the officials in two prefectures and one city only cared about drinking and having fun, and never asked about the blood camp.

As soon as you don't ask, it's easy to handle. Mo Hegan bought people's hearts wantonly, and secretly cultivated some young people from the Abbess, and trained them.Moreover, he is a barbarian himself, and these fans are not repulsive to him.In fact, the strength of the Scarlet Battalion did not decline due to the court's cold treatment, but instead increased several times.But all of this is carried out on the basis of Wang Hua's continuous remittance of large sums of money.

Mo Hegan got the money and didn't use it indiscriminately, except for sharing a sum with his subordinates and giving some to the leaders of various tribes. He secretly manipulated and used various companies to buy a large amount of supplies.Including a large number of weapons that Wang Hua secretly prepared for them, they were also smuggled into the Shannan area and got into their hands.They even secretly entrusted reliable herdsmen to graze nearly [-] war horses for them.

But this was done very secretly, even in front of Zhu Dian, Wang Hua didn't mention it.

Before the new year came, Li Hong finally gave birth and gave birth to a daughter. It would be better if Wang Hua was by her side, and he could comfort her.Now without Wang Hua by her side, Li Hong wanted to cry.Look at Li Gu'er's son, how attractive he is.In fact, this daughter is very beautiful.But this society generally favors men over women, there is no way.

Li Gu'er also came to visit and comforted him a few words.But after going out, he wanted to look up to the sky and laugh, and now Zhaolang was healed, no matter who gave birth to Wang Hua's son in the future, Wang Zhaolang would be at least one year older.There is no doubt that he is the head of the Wang family.

When he was happy, he took out many treasures from the palace and gave them to Li Hong.

Li Hongbai glanced at her, unable to get angry or laugh.

But what Li Gu'er said to Li Hong was also on his mind, so he sent his cronies out to inquire.Sure enough, there was less money, but I didn't tell anyone.

When New Year's Day approached, Li Xian hosted a banquet for his ministers.

Li Gu'er was also present, seeing everyone drinking happily, asked curiously: "Everyone, don't you know one thing?"

what's up?Everyone stopped together, with cups and chopsticks in their hands, and looked at Li Bao'er.Li Bao'er sighed and said, "Father, why don't you let Wang Erlang be the prime minister?"

Such a big event is about to happen, and none of the ministers in the court and China know it.The same was true for the food last year. I don't know what my father thinks.

Before Li Xian could react, Webster remembered that Wang Hua had mentioned two tips before leaving, and the second one was that he had no money.She didn't quite understand why the court had so much tax revenue last year, why there was no money?It seems that there is a mountain of money in the treasury.

The reason why money accumulates like a mountain is a bad thing.Not only in the national treasury, Wang Hua, Taiyuan Wang's family, and Li Xuejun's father also saved more than 1000 copper coins.In this way, how much copper money can flow in the market?

Wei Shi didn't understand, but she still asked, "Zuo'er, what do you want to say?"

Li Gu'er originally wanted to say that a group of ministers were idiots, but thinking of Wang Hua's arrangement, the flying money list hadn't come out yet, so he resisted and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, let's all drink, I wish the Tang Dynasty a smooth and prosperous year, and the country is prosperous and the people are safe. I also wish my father and queen mother good health for thousands of years."

The minister was at a loss, but had to stand up and follow the toast.

Wei Shi took it to heart, and asked after the banquet, "Wu'er, what do you want to say?"

"Queen, it's nothing, it's nothing, anyway, no matter how big the problem is, it can be solved."

Webster asked a few more questions, but Li Bao'er refused to say anything.

But Webster was even more skeptical, and thought of Wang Hua's concubine, Li Hong. Wang Hua's family was in Luoyang, but she was alone in Chang'an, and she didn't even go back to give birth.So Zong Chuke and other cronies were called to ask: "My dear friends, have you heard that we have no money in the Tang Dynasty?"

"The money is gone?" Zong Chuke was taken aback.They are preparing to overthrow Wei, to overthrow Wei Yuanzhong, it is interesting to care about the market situation, and it is also done by businessmen, let alone do it.Zong Chuke asked again: "Queen, what money is there?"

"No, it's nothing," Wei Shi suddenly remembered what Wang Hua said before leaving, and he must not tell others, otherwise there will be no solution at that time.She covered it up for a while, and told Zong Chuke and others to go back.Then he said to Li Xian: "Did we run out of money in the Tang Dynasty?"

"How is it possible?" Li Xian was wondering about this matter.But Wang Hua was in Qinzhou again, but he still sent someone to issue a secret decree to ask what was going on.But Wang Hua wrote back that it might happen, or it might not happen.If it happens, when it gets serious, just ask Li Hong for a tip and it will be resolved.Please don't worry, Your Majesty, and focus on the current state affairs.

Webster said: "It seems that even Baoer seems to have heard some rumors."

They called Li Gu'er over again, and the couple forced them to question him. Li Gu'er was forced to say, "I will tell you in a month."

Let's take a month to see how the money is gone.

The most honorable couple in Datang still don't believe in this evil.

Webster saw it, and some people saw it. Zhang Shuo, Song Jing, and Lao Wei were out of the palace, so they talked about it.Zhang said that he is not very familiar with the Wang family, but Da Song and Lao Wei are familiar with each other. If it is Mu Zili, the two are still hesitant, and the little girl speaks too sharply.But Li Hong has a gentle personality, so he came to visit together.

Old Wei asked, "Li Hong, is something going to happen again?"

Last year's grain war was played so well that Lao Wei was speechless. Not only Lao Wei, but also all the important officials in the court were not in the mood to work.

Li Hong said: "Maybe something happened, maybe nothing happened."

He spoke in the same tone as Li Gu'er, but Lao Wei could tell that it was not that there might be nothing wrong, but that something might happen, and said in a deep voice, "Li Hong, state affairs are the most important thing, and we can't hide it."

If it was the little girl who just painted with Wang before, Old Wei would really scare her.But how could Li Hong scare him now.To put it bluntly, it asks for money. The money Wang Hua earned last year was close to half of Datang's entire national tax.At least a third.This is the good tax situation of the Tang Dynasty last year.Important people, except for the Bloody Camp, which is like the Wang family, there will be 100 million people in Oceania immediately.Even if Li Xian stood in front of her, she would not be afraid.

Shaking his head, he said, "I don't know, or you can write to Erlang and ask."

Wang Hua will definitely reply when writing a letter, because it's not a rush of [-] miles, at least two months, the thing happened long ago.

"And Wei Xianggong, you should become an official."

"To become an official?"

"Yes, I should retire as early as possible, and the more mournful the memorial, the better."

"Why?" Da Song asked.Although Lao Wei is not in charge now, he is still a signboard. With Lao Wei in the court, it will play a positive role to some extent.Once Old Wei fell, the crowd danced more joyfully.

"Song Shilang, don't ask why. When the population of Qinzhou is almost absorbed, my family's Erlang will play a concert to promote Qinzhou to the governor's mansion. There is a lot of waste waiting to be done, and it is really worrying to change someone else, so you can tell me in advance. Your Majesty said, and reserved that seat. Let some people feel at ease, so that they don't miss you too."

I go to Qinzhou?Comrade Da Song was also stunned for a long time.Don't look at that position is a bit hot, but it is really hot.Wang Hua might stay for more than half a year or a year. With this time, Qinzhou will become the second most beautiful city in Lingnan.Wherever you want money, you will have money, and you will have people.

But where is Wang Hua's political achievements? If you change to other officials, if you don't do well, it will only make people laugh.Not good to go.And it was always Lingnan, even Da Song felt a little uncomfortable.

"Song Shilang, don't worry, my family's Erlang will stay until the end of the year at most, but Qinzhou's development will last at least two to three years. As long as you don't mess around, you can make political achievements wherever you go. But I'm afraid that officials appointed by the court will mess around." Not Qinzhou, Mainly after this year, because a large number of people have been settled in each state, the development of each state has been stimulated, and the development of each state will once again drive the development of Qinzhou.However, this effect will not be seen until next year.Li Hong's words were not meant to fool Song Jing.

"Then Miss Li, can you tell us why Mr. Wei wants to retire and I'm going to Lingnan?"

"The servant doesn't know anymore," Li Hong said angrily.It’s all about this, why do you still have to ask?Or tell them all Wang Hua's secrets?
The two had no choice but to leave even more depressed than Webster.

(End of this chapter)