Zhao Bing is really too sensitive to the issue of money. He was cheated on the ship in disguise for several years in his previous life, and was always troubled by money in this life, and he could try his best to make money. He felt that he was a businessman, and how to make money was his main business, and training the army, inventing new weapons, and constantly shouting to restore the country to "rob" were just a means of profit.

Looking back on what happened today, Zhao Bing recalled a war in his previous life - the Gulf War. At that time, the United States was united in the name of helping Kuwait and was authorized by the United Nations to beat Iraq up. However, the people who were obsessed with the melons could understand that it was fake to help others, and the oil that controlled Iraq was real, and the US's behavior was completely fake to public and private.

Everyone has seen the result of the war. Kuwait was restored, Saddam was cowardly, and the Iraqi army suffered heavy casualties and returned home in shame. However, the vast number of people who were obsessed with watching the high-tech excitement, seeing the power of the US imperialist, lamenting that Iraq was defeated too quickly, they were also ready to borrow the light of the US imperialist to enjoy the results of the war - cheap gasoline.

But everyone soon discovered that the matter was that before the Gulf War, thirty dollars per barrel of oil disappeared, and instead of the price of oil on the rocket, the oil quickly soared to nearly one hundred and fifty dollars per barrel. The people who were obsessed with the melons were completely unable to understand it. If the US imperialists really made oil for oil, the price of oil increased by more than four times, then wouldn’t the battle be worth the loss?

As one of them, Zhao Bing was also confused, and his perception of the US emperor changed greatly, and he was almost going to receive cents. However, after reading a book, he became angry young people and scolded the Americans for hiding too deeply and cheating everyone and thinking that they were the savior! This is a more hidden, cruel and helpless financial war.

This made Zhao Bing understand that war is not simple. Everyone knows that contemporary finance is the financial history of the dollar dominance, and this is the secret. In the middle and late 20th century, Americans forced OPEC to agree that global oil transactions could only be settled in US dollars, and the result was about to emerge. Simply put, you could buy a barrel of oil with more than thirty dollars in your hand. Now if you still want to buy a barrel of oil, you need more than four times the original dollar, but what if you don’t have so many dollars in your hand? You have to go to the US government for it.

There is no free lunch in the world, which is well known to everyone. The US imperialists have always been the first priority and are not a philanthropist. How could they give you dollars in vain? If you want the US dollar, then exchange your resources and products. The pricing power is in the hands of Americans. It can take the opportunity to lower your prices and enjoy your resources and products at a low price. It can also understand why American products are lower than China? Americans live too comfortably, not only good quality, but also cheap.

On the other hand, China has been developing for so many years, and the labor cost has been very low. In theory, your price should be relatively low. But why is the price of Chinese goods higher than that of the United States? The reason is that the linkage between the US dollar and oil is due to the linkage between the US dollar and oil. When China became the world's largest oil importer last year, it needed to prepare more US dollars to buy oil, which means you have to use more products and resources to exchange for US dollars.

Of course there is no fairness in this kind of transaction. The United States can suppress your price, forcing you to sell things to the United States at a lower cost price in order to export tax rebates or even export subsidies, so Americans can certainly enjoy low-priced goods. This war is actually a carefully set up situation for the whole world that allows Americans to occupy your physical wealth with almost no cost green paper, and you can only use this as the price to join the process of globalization.

Zhao Bing also thought about what the United States relied on to make the people of the world pay for him? He thought that this should also be considered a form of civilization, which is a forced credit created by the country's strength, especially the strong military power. This global credit system dominated by the US dollar, has become a basic way of survival for the US country and profited from it.

Linking this matter with the current affairs made Zhao Bing think deeply. From ancient times to the present, what is the final expression of each form of civilization? Or, what is the most core thing of each civilization? He finally realized that this is credit. Whether it is by force or by benevolence and righteousness, a credit system dominated by it is established within the boundaries or within the scope of influence that he can dominate.

Now the Mongolians used iron hooves and scimitars to promote the nomadic grassland civilization that bartered the nomadic peoples to half the world, and under the influence of the Central Plains civilization, they realized the exchange between physical objects and physical objects with currency as an intermediary. So is it a bit similar to the Americans' use of pure paper money as a special commodity to exchange physical objects?

Of course, Zhao Bing would not be optimistic that he could really create a modern form of financial civilization, because he clearly realized that his current strength could not surpass the Mongolians, and he could not temporarily overturn the credit system established by the Yuan Empire. Now he has established a simple credit system with the richness and cheapness of salt, but he knows that even so, strong military strength is needed to be supported to consolidate and develop and further expand.

After analyzing the pros and cons, Zhao Bing decided not to interfere with the use of salt priming for the time being, but to observe for a while, but to closely monitor the changes in the data, find the rules, and prevent the collapse of salt prices. Think about it, tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and the day after tomorrow is a grand ceremony. It is basically rare to rest in these two days. I should first accumulate my energy and welcome the most painful Spring Festival for me...

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After dawn, Zhao Bing got up, finished washing and changing clothes and went to the Empress Dowager's harem to pay tribute, and accompanied her to share breakfast, and then the mother and son talked for a while. The most common thing the Empress Dowager said was the grand occasion of the Spring Festival in Lin'an in the past. Zhao Bing could only patiently and pretend to be very interested and listened attentively. He asked questions from time to time, which made the Empress Dowager laugh.

"The government will come to accompany the empress dowager more in the future. I have not seen the empress dowager so happy for a long time!" Dou Xing said with a smile.

"Haha, don't be fooled. The sixth brother has to deal with many military and national affairs every day. Where can I always come to Ai's house if I have time!" The empress dowager touched the little emperor's head lovingly and said.

"My mother, Daguan Dou is right. I am unfilial and will definitely come to accompany my mother more in the future." Zhao Bing leaned against the Queen Mother and said.

Empress Dowager Yang is only in her thirties, but in a few years she has experienced drastic changes in her life such as losing her husband and son, losing her country and losing her family. However, she has also taken on the heavy responsibility of teaching the young emperor to restore the country, which makes her who has never been involved in political affairs and can't help but be at a loss. When she arrived in Qiongzhou, her rise gradually took control of the regime, and she returned to loneliness and lived in this palace.

'As soon as he entered the palace, it was as deep as the sea'. Although Empress Dowager Yang was extremely noble, she could not escape this curse. She could only stay in the palace throughout the year, and was accompanied by these palace maids and eunuchs, and there was not even a person to say what she said in her heart. Zhao Bing was imprisoned on the boat for several years in his previous life, so he naturally knew the taste of loneliness and coldness, and how difficult it was to live. With more rare treasures, it was better to talk with her.

"Okay, okay, when the sixth brother grows up quickly, after the wedding, someone will talk to the Ai family and give birth to another group of children, and you will no longer be lonely!" Queen Mother Yang said with a smile.

"This..." Zhao Bing's face turned red and he murmured, "My son is still young and he wants to be with his mother. Let's talk about the wedding later!"

"Sixth brother, don't take this matter to heart. The late emperor gave birth to six sons, and now you are the only one who lives alone. Moreover, the Zhao family's son scattered, and this thing that continues the bloodline is placed on the official family. If the bloodline is broken, the Ai family will not have the face to meet the late emperor and the ancestors and ancestors!" After hearing Zhao Bing's words, Empress Dowager Yang grabbed his hand and said with a stern face.

"Mother, my son is only ten years old after the New Year. Is it too urgent to get married?" Zhao Bing saw that he was crying and couldn't say anything else, so he could only smile bitterly.

"No, no hurry!" Empress Dowager Yang waved her hands repeatedly, "It is common for the people in the country to make a marriage at the age of two or three, and it is common for them to get married at the age of ten. After the New Year, the Ai family summoned all the prime ministers to select the ladies from all officials and the countryside to make a marriage for my son!"

"This... Mother, the Tartars have not been destroyed and the family and country have not been restored, so why do I be a family?" Zhao Bing sighed. If this was in modern times, it would be a child marriage, which the country explicitly prohibited. Besides, such a young child knows nothing, it can be called playing house. But the empress dowager took this as a national event, and she was even more responsible for continuing the dragon vein, making him feel unconfident when he said this!

"Sixth brother, you can only take charge of the rule after the wedding, and the Ai family can let go. Therefore, if you want to show your ambitions, you need to get married earlier!" Empress Dowager Yang said seriously.

"My mother, the son is still in the age of the general leader. Before the ceremony of the crown prince, the day of taking charge of the rule is still far away. The mother still needs to preside over the state affairs. Don't shirk it!" Zhao Bing knew that the Empress Dowager was right, and she actually controlled the government affairs, but she still could not rule according to the ceremony, and such things should be modest.

"The sixth brother is still playful and just wants to be lazy. The Ai family doesn't want to deal with these cumbersome political affairs every day. You can have a ceremony in two years, and then you can get married!" Empress Dowager Yang poked the little emperor's head with her finger and said.

"My mother, "The Book of Rites" says 'twenty-year-old', and it's still early!" Zhao Bing didn't want to marry a wife, but didn't have confidence in himself. He married a wife at such a young age. Once his little body was immersed in it, he might not have lived a few years. The emperor in history died in the numerous articles above, so he didn't want to follow their footsteps, so he was very resistant to early marriage. Besides, he would not marry whoever he would not marry, and he would not be able to make decisions now, so he might as well wait.

"Sixth brother, do you really think that Ai's family has never read books, don't you know etiquette?" Empress Dowager Yang patted Zhao Bing's head and said with a smile, "King Wen of Zhou was twelve and crowned, and "Zuo Zhuan" also contains the story of "Duke Xiang of Lu twelve and crowned". The "Shuyi" written by Sima Junshi, the former prime minister of this dynasty, also said that a man was twelve to twenty years old, and as long as his parents did not have a mourning of more than one year, he could perform the ceremony."

"Mother, according to the words of several masters, Cheng Yi once said, 'The reason why the Guan was responsible for being a person is not a twelve years', and he also said, 'Even the emperor and the princes must be twenty-six'." Zhao Bing actually knew that the Empress Dowager said was good, but he also knew that the age of Guan Li was controversial in the Song Dynasty, but he did not expect that the Empress Dowager had already done his homework.

Sima Guang simplified the "Yi Li·Shi Guan Li" and formulated the ceremony of the "Zhu Zi Family Rite" to prepare the main rituals of Sima Guang's "Shu Yi", but stipulated the year of the man's 15 to 20 years, and put forward corresponding requirements from the perspective of knowledge: "If a gentleman who is honest and kind to ancient times can understand the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects of Confucius, he will roughly know the principles of etiquette and morality, and then he will be crowned with it, and this will be the beauty."

However, the scholars and officials still had differences and debates on the age of the ritual. Cheng Yi firmly opposed it. He believed that since the ritual is over, he must be blamed for the things that become a man, otherwise it will become a false ritual. If the ritual cannot be blamed for the things that become a man after the ritual, he will not expect him to become a man in the end. While the current prevalence of Neo-Confucianism, Zhao Bing quoted Cheng Yi's theory to shirk it was the most convincing.

"This...well, this matter is indeed questionable. The Ai family and several prime ministers have discussed it, but it is an extraordinary time. The Ai family thinks they will agree!" Empress Dowager Yang hesitated and said.

"Yes, yes, this matter is still a while, so don't give someone a handle for it!" Zhao Bing quickly said, wanting to end the topic as soon as possible.

"Okay!" Empress Dowager Yang nodded, "Dou Xing gave the gift list to Liu Ge'er the gift to Daning Village, and see if there is something else to add!"

"My mother is thoughtful, so I don't have to look at it anymore!" Zhao Bing said with a dark face, and then he remembered that there was a kiss in Daning Village. After hiding for a long time, he still couldn't escape the things that made him bored. He waved his hand and said.

"Give it to him!" Empress Dowager Yang shook her face and said with a wink at Dou Xing, "Daning Village has sent a lot of tribute this year, and they dispatched 3,000 soldiers to help in this battle. The government must not underestimate it!"

"Oh!" Zhao Bing took the gift list handed over by Dou Xing and looked at it, "My mother, this reward is already very heavy, do you need to add it?"

"Sixth brother, the Ai family knows that you are dissatisfied with this marriage, but this is also for the sake of the country. You don't have to worry about the slander in the future. If the reward is lighter this time, they will think that we are despised and thus are dissatisfied. This move is also a sign of winning!" Empress Dowager Yang sighed.
Chapter completed!