Xuzhou, the backyard of the Dasong Bank.

In Su Shi's study, the two brothers looked at each other silently. Today, Su Shi didn't even go to the bank building, but just stayed in his study, holding an edict, looking over and over again, and didn't know how long he had been looking. His brother Su Chi sat face to face with him, just sighing.

It was quiet inside the room, and only sighs could be heard.

At the end, Su Shi shook his hand and placed the edict on the table. He pressed his temple with a fat hand, sighing deeply: "These retro party members do not want to give the merchants from the eight states in the southeast... They actually want to move away the mountains of gold and silver and copper coins in the banks of the Song Dynasty... This is the foundation of the bank!

The commerce and trade in the Eight Continentals and one country in the Southeast is booming, and transactions are huge, and money transfer can only be carried out through banks. Merchants are also accustomed to depositing capital into the bank for some interest. If a large amount of money is needed for business, they will also ask the bank for loans. The fundamental reason for the Southeast banking industry is the gold, silver and copper mountains that exist in the Song Dynasty Bank! If this is empty, the banking industry in the Eight Continentals and one country in the Southeast will collapse. At that time, the industrial and commercial industries in the Southeast will not collapse? The retro party members still want to pay heavy commercial taxes in the Southeast... are they not afraid of the rebellion of the rich merchants in the Southeast?"

Listening to his younger brother mentioning "rebellion", Su Chi smiled coldly and said, "They just want to destroy the Southeast industry and commerce! If the industry and commerce fail, how can the national policy of farming and Warring States be implemented? Besides, the Retro Party has planned and should be based on Guanlong.

Guanlong is not reliable in business and business! The sky is used to transport Shu brocade from Sichuan and pick up rice and grain from Jianghan. What is the use of Southeast Industry and Commerce? You can kill chickens and get eggs! As for whether to rebel in the southeast or not, they will not care!"

Su Shi shook his head, "Guanlong is the basis? But during the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an also needed wealth from Jiangnan and Jianghuai to support him."

"Isn't that because of the corruption of the government army?" Su Chi said, "If the government army is broken, it is necessary to recruit soldiers from Jiangnan and Jianghuai. If the government army is not broken, the barren land of Guanlong can support hundreds of thousands of households. If the Jiangnan and Jianghuai, what is the use of wealth? The gold and silver mountains in the banks of the Song Dynasty are just used to appease the capital of the northwest generals. With their support, the government army system can be implemented in Guanlong. With the military power of Guanlong, Bashu and Jianghan have to bow their heads."

"So, is the retro party really retro?"

Su Chi snorted: "It's not that the retro party members should be really retro, but that the new army officers and soldiers who support the retro party members should be really retro! Most of those people are native buns from the northwest... They don't like the reformist methods in the southeast!

There is not just the little interest of silk, but cloth!”

"what else?"

Su Chi said: "There is also an official hat! What the eight states in the southeast are planning is to use new students to replace the imperial examinations? What the people in the northwest want is to replace the imperial examinations with military merits!"

After all, the Song Dynasty was an official society. The profits fought for by the southeast industry and commerce, the northwest military leaders, and the scholars and officials from all over the country were the first ones to be the official hat and then money.

With an official, are you still afraid of not having money?

If you have money but no official, can you keep the money?

The Song Dynasty's system of recruiting scholars - the imperial examination, seemed fair, but it was not good for the Southeast Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Northwest Warlords. So both sides wanted to abolish it!

The Jinshi class is known as the "fifty young Jinshi". Those who can be named in the twentieth year and are the rare geniuses who are thirty years old. The majority of those who work hard until they are 40 or 50 years old will get what they want.

Scholars from wealthy business families rarely have the perseverance of studying hard for life. They face too many temptations, and it is too easy to gain wealth from industry and commerce. It is difficult to turn a blind eye to things outside the window and only read the books of sages.

As for the warlords in the northwest, let alone it. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the outside world. If you ignore it, the Western thief will come over!

Therefore, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Shaanxi, Hedong and Hebei, as important military centers, have always been among the top three in the imperial examinations. As the pillars of national military power, it is naturally unwilling to waste their time on the imperial examination field.

If the generals in the northwest want to be involved in noble civil servants, the best way is to abolish the imperial examination system or turn the imperial examination system back to the situation in the early Tang Dynasty, which will be a supplement to the world's election and military merits.

In the southeast, industry and commerce are eager to get a new bachelor's degree and want to use colleges to obtain the imperial examinations. Because colleges do not require lifelong study, and what they are learning is more practical, and if you fail to pass the Jinshi exam, you can do other things.

In addition, the tuition fees for universities are not cheap nowadays! Southeast industrial and commercial wealthy people can use their financial resources to send a large number of their children to universities, thereby achieving the goal of monopolizing the officialdom.

Su Shi thought about it and then thought, and finally shook his head and said, "If this continues, the world will probably have three points, right?"

What he meant was that the world would be divided into Northern Zhou, Western Song, and Eastern Song!

Behind the Three Kingdoms, there are their respective interest groups. The Northern Zhou Dynasty was a country jointly organized by farmers and industrial and commercial capital; the Western Song Dynasty was a conservative feudal military landlord; the Eastern Song Dynasty was a Southeast industrial and commercial group.

As for the imperial examination literati... the major events in the world are almost nothing to do with them!

Su Chi glanced at his younger brother: "The world is inevitable, so what about my family? Most of my uncle's children are in the north... So what about you and me? One east and one west? Or are they all in the east?"

Su Shi thought for a while, "Brother, is there a future in the west?"

"It may not be possible." Su Chi said, "If there is no future in the west, the north will unify the world!"

Su Shi nodded, "That's right! The merchants on the east side alone can't stop the Northern Zhou Dynasty... Big brother, I have been operating in the southeast for many years and have control over the bank, so I'd better stay in the east."

"Then Brother Yu has to go west." Su Chi looked at his brother, "You can't let Brother Yu return empty-handed, right?"

"This..." Su Shi thought for a while, "How much do you want?"

Su Chi stretched out a finger: "How about 100 million?"

"No, no," Su Shi just shook his head, "If you take out 100 million, Dasong Bank will be empty. You can give up at most 50 million yuan... and you will all give Xiaoping money, no gold or silver."

"Then it's 50 million!" Su Chi said, "But I can't give it to Zhao Ding."

The edict in Su Shi's hand was brought by Zhao Ding. Zhao Ding wanted to transport all the gold, silver and copper mountains in the Xuzhou Song Bank to Jiangning Prefecture by water, and then go west of the Yangtze River and send it to Guanzhong.

This circle is very tight!

"No," Su Shi shook his head, "I want to give it to you!

If you don’t give it, how could the eight states in the southeastern country rebel? Leave 50 million in Xuzhou, and the rest are shipped to Jiangning Prefecture.

In addition, the eldest brother can invite the county to Xuzhou and let Tong Guan concentrate on the war in Jingdong. When the troops of the King of Gold and Silver North and East Sea transported to Jiangning are intercepted, the eldest brother will escort the 50 million bribes from Xuzhou to Xinyang Army, and he will not be afraid of having no place in the Western Dynasties."

Tong Guan is now the governor of Xuzhou as the governor of Jingdong Propaganda and Fufu. However, the war in Jingdong is in critical condition, and Tong Guan does not consider the affairs in Xuzhou, but is in the governor of Qizhou. Therefore, the governor of Xuzhou is actually vacant, and Su Chi can ask for it.

"Go to Xinyang by the Huaihe River?" Su Chi thought for a while, "Can you get by?"

"It's acceptable!" Su Shi said, "Tong Guan has arranged thousands of Shuofang soldiers in Xuzhou, and just feed them.

In addition, there are 2,000 soldiers from Ji Jun in Xuzhou, so I can take them to Haizhou to put pressure on Donghaiwang."

"Okay!" Su Chi said, "In order to remove the Donghai Phantom, the official has given me a handwritten edict to act cheaply, and promised me to mobilize less than 3,000 troops. Now I will send you to persuade you and then order Ji Jun to lead his troops to Haizhou to avoid causing trouble in Xuzhou."

Ji Jun is Ji Yi's son, and Ji Yi was beaten to become a treacherous after being assassinated. If Ji Jun had not had 2,000 soldiers in his hands, he would have been dismissed long ago - Ji Jun's 2,000 soldiers were said to be newly recruited soldiers, but in fact the core backbones all came from the warship fleet of the Ji family's sea merchants, and ordinary infantry came from the tenants of the Ji family in the south of the Yangtze River. It was said to be a new army, but in fact it was a training of the Ji family!

Although there are not many people, no one in Xuzhou is willing to fight them.

...

"Sutiju, are you going to take the troops to support the King of East Sea?"

Xuzhou, Ji Jun, who has not yet removed his filial piety clothes, looks a little cold, but his tone is quite enthusiastic.

Although he has 2,000 troops, there is also a huge Ji family behind him. However, there is no way for the imperial court to deal with him.

The thousands of Shuofang soldiers placed by Tong Guan in Xuzhou alone are not something that the Ji family's 2000th regiment can withstand.

"Let's go and support it together!" Su Shi smiled, "Your Ji family has Xiuzhou and Suzhou, our Su family has Quanzhou... Xie family has Mingzhou, Chen family has Guangzhou, Pan Xiao'an now controls Jiangning Prefecture, Donghai Kingdom is in the hands of Wu Fei, and Xuzhou is mostly controlled by the Master of Li Guojian. There are eight states... If we can protect the King of Donghai to Jiangning Prefecture, as long as we can intercept the gold and silver transported from Xuzhou, we can establish an Eastern Song Dynasty in Jiangnan, right?"

"Building a country in Jiangnan?" Ji Jun asked, "What should I do if Xuzhou, Haizhou?"

"Of course I give up!" Su Shi said, "It would be great if I could defend the Huaihe River. If I want to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, I am afraid it would be a delusion.

I have already thought about it. The maritime merchants from the East China Kingdom will move to Shanghai as much as possible... Nanyang, Beiyang, and Yangtze River will meet at Shanghai! It will be amazing in the future! Ling Zun's vision is really unspeakable!

The smelter in Xuzhou can move to Jiangning. The near Jiangning has produced iron since ancient times. Although it is not as good as Li Guojian, it is not bad.

From now on, we will take Jiangning and Shanghai as the foundation and rely on the Yangtze River Navy to defend the Yangtze River. Then we can use the Jianghuai land as a barrier to protect the situation in the Eastern Wu."

Xuzhou and Haizhou cannot be defended! Moreover, these two states are a must-visit in the Northern Zhou Dynasty! With the two states of Xuhai, the Northern Zhou Dynasty can have two major industrial and commercial centers, so that the industrial and commercial and military citizens in the Northern Zhou Dynasty can be balanced.

"Where is the national system?" Ji Jun asked, "How to do it? Is it the same republic as the Northern Zhou Dynasty?"

Su Shi shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not possible to republic! Why don't you come to join the whole country?"

"Unite the whole country?"
Chapter completed!