The fluctuations caused by the Southern Movement of Gold and Silver in the Song Dynasty were unprecedentedly huge, and the retro gentlemen who started this may not have expected it.

These retro party members did not know enough about Southeast industry and commerce, and they did not expect that the prodigal businessmen could see through their plans at first sight. In fact, their plans could not be hidden from the prodigal businessmen at all, because the prodigal businessmen had a spy in the court. How could they be kept in the dark?

However, even if you know that it will be vented, the retro party will not change their policies. Because their regime is based on the support of new military officers from Northwest.

These sword handles of the Song Xinjun also look quite powerful... The Southeast profiteer should not be their opponent, right?

Besides, the political program of the retro party members is "Ten Strategies for Resisting the Enemy", which emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce, and requires the feudal military service system.

The industry and commerce of the eight prefectures in the southeast have an impact on the natural economy of the Central Plains and the northwest!

After all, the Central Plains and the Northwest are different from the Yan land and the Liaohe River Basin. Due to transportation and population density, Yan land and the Liaohe River Basin can be integrated with Tianjin's industry and commerce.

However, the Central Plains and the Northwest are not good. Before the railway appeared, the industrial spring breeze could not blow there at all.

Besides, it has not yet developed to the industrial stage, but it has just entered the era of factory and handicrafts. Areas with inconvenient water transportation are naturally at a great competitive disadvantage.

Therefore, it is beneficial to curbing the southeast industry and commerce, and even cutting the southeast to a certain extent, for the natural economy of the northwest and the Central Plains.

Of course, the prerequisite for suppressing industry and commerce in the southeast is that the court and feudal military aristocrats located in the northwest should be willing to live in poverty and martial life.

Therefore, the gold and silver mountains in the banks of the Song Dynasty are actually not a prerequisite for the retro northwest - cutting from the southeast or suppressing the southeast industry and commerce is the real prerequisite.

Therefore, the resistance of Southeast industry and commerce and the emergence of the Eastern Song Dynasty's united country actually fulfilled the great retro of the Western Song Dynasty...

But in the summer of the sixth year of Xuanhe, most of the merchants in the eight states in the southeast had no such long-term vision - businessmen, and their eyes were said to be short-sighted. Now they only saw the Song Bank taking away the money that should belong to them!

The mountains of gold and silver stored in the Xuzhou vault are the deposit of bank vouchers!

Without these gold, silver and copper coins, the bank vouchers in the hands of merchants are a stack of waste paper.

Banks that cannot cash in on bank bonds will immediately go bankrupt, and then the merchants who deposit money in the bank will lose everything!

In the face of the threat of bankruptcy, the promiscuous businessmen have long left the matter of loving Da Song behind.

After the news reached the southeastern states, a long queue immediately lined up at the doors of banks everywhere! Countless depositors and small and medium-sized merchants held certificates of deposit and bank vouchers to cash out.

All kinds of business names have been listed as "refusing to accept paper money"! Not only are there no one asking for "refusing to accept paper money" from various banks in the Song Dynasty, but even the bank coupons from the Dazhou Kingdom next door are also rejected.

Some small banks with insufficient risk tolerance face the risk of bankruptcy shortly after the news spread.

The bank manager and his bosses, who were so anxious that they could not help, rushed to Dasong Bank in Xuzhou, hoping to get back the deposit to deal with the run.

However, Zhao Ding, who succeeded Su Shi as the director of the Song Dynasty, ignored the matter and was busy sending ships of gold and silver to Jiangning Mansion!

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A large number of boxes of gold and silver were transported out of the treasury of the Dasong Bank. Under the custody of Zong Ying's second general officers and soldiers of Kaifeng, they were sent by a coolie to the canal wharf by carriage, and then loaded with a scattered boat.

Several officials transferred from the Ministry of Revenue and Taifu Temple were sweating profusely to inspect, weigh, record boxes, and finally sealed them. The coolie transported the gang ship. On each gang ship, there were at least two officials, one civil and one military officers and a platoon of new troops!

Moreover, these sect ships did not set out one by one, but set out together after they were all shipped. New troops will also be arranged on both sides of the canal.

Zhao Ding stood in a corner of the dock, and walked around with Zong Ze's son Zong Ying, casually. From time to time, he opened a box and took out the gold ingots and silver inside to check it carefully. Although he could not tell the truth at all, Zhao Ding pretended to behave and nodded and said, "It's all very good gold and silver! The coin minting factory here in Xuzhou is still very good. We should pick some great craftsmen to take to Guanzhong!"

Zong Ying pressed the sword with his hands, his official uniform was clean, and although his face was covered in sweat, he didn't wipe it. He smiled and said, "It's not just a good money minting factory, but there are more talents in the Liguojian! In recent years, the cold forged armor produced by Liguojian has become better and better. The armor is getting bigger and bigger, and it is moderately soft and hard, thin and tough. It can even create a whole piece of front and back cover!"

The front cover and the back cover are the front and back sides of the armor, protecting the two parts of the front chest, abdomen, shoulders, and back. Usually, they are made of small pieces of iron, which means the armor.

The front cover and back cover made of a whole piece of steel plate are the legendary plate armor!

The plate armor is light and strong, and it is difficult to break the crossbow. It is definitely the best product to save lives on the battlefield. However, the processing technology is too difficult. It requires high-quality iron and hydraulic hammers for forging.

Hydraulic hammers have been available for a long time, but high-quality iron materials are not easy to obtain. Even if there is one thing, they were used to build weapons. It was not until the iron factory in Liguojian who fully mastered the crucible iron smelting technology passed down from Tianzhu, and could use crucibles to remove slag and carburize, there was enough high-quality iron material to forge plate armor - this high-quality cooked iron can be almost called steel.

In the original "coal ironmaking" and "steel stir-frying" processes, it is difficult to grasp slag removal and carburizing. Only such high-quality iron (steel) can be obtained occasionally, so it is impossible to use it to build plate armor.

However, now, the iron plant in Liguojian can mass-produce high-quality iron (steel), and can also manually adjust the carbon content to control the hardness of iron (steel) - this is a very critical technology! With this technology, breakthroughs can be achieved in the metal cutting and cutting process, and excellent guns can be made.

So now the Liguojian Iron Factory and JD Iron Factory have begun to copy muskets!

Zhao Ding put down the silver horn in his hand, clapped his hands, and Chao Zongying said, "That's right, we have to bring them all... When we arrive in Guanzhong, we will still have to do a large-scale military industry. But we can't hand it over to the unscrupulous business anymore, we have to run the official business. The craftsmen brought from Li Guojian will be craftsmen, and we will study the art of iron smelting forging for generations!"

The retro party’s retro approach is good for feudal military service, but it is a bottomless pit in handicrafts. Because under the policy of suppressing business, the production of weapons can only be handed over to craftsmen in official handicrafts or feudal manors.

Moreover, Guanzhong now has no military industry foundation, so it has to grab more craftsmen from the eight southeastern states.

At this moment, a staff member of Zhao Ding walked quickly and came to Zhao Ding and Zong Ying, "It seems that something happened to JD.com."

“What’s the situation?”

"The council of JD.com's profiteering businessmen is discussing transferring the business city to Qinhuai City in Shanghai and Jiangning Prefecture."

"What?" Zhao Ding was stunned, "Transfer to the market? Who agreed? What does Donghai King mean? Will he follow him?"

The staff member shook his head, "I don't know."

Zong Ying, who was standing beside him, reminded: "Super, our gold and silver must also leave Jiangning Mansion. Will they be intercepted by their design?"

"Intercept?" Zhao Ding frowned, "Where can you go without leaving Jiangning Mansion? Now the East Pirate is stuck in Chenliu, so it is not OK to go to the Bian River."

"Go to Xinyang by the Huaihe River."

Zhao Ding thought for a while and nodded, "It's okay, just go to Huaihe River. But you can't tell me now. I'll send an order to you when I'm in Chuzhou."

“That’s natural!”

Zhao Ding's prudence was actually redundant. It was not that JD.com had no idea of ​​robbing gold and silver, but that after the news of Xuzhou's gold and silver being transferred reached JD.com, it immediately triggered a trend that could be called a revolution.

And the JD mob driven by the revolutionary trend would not have any strict plans at all...

On the tenth day of April, outside the gate of the Prince's Mansion of Donghai County in Jingdong Shang City, there were already crowds of petitioners. The Dengwen drum outside the gate of the Prince's Mansion was beaten so loud that it was loud.

The slogan of "repaying my hard-earned money" was even more yelling, and it was directly heard by King Zhao Kai of Donghai through the high wall of the royal palace.

At this moment, Zhao Kai was in his Yin'an Hall, watching a group of representatives from the Jingdong Commercial City Council and the former Dasong Bank who came from Xuzhou to promote Su Shi, and was a little at a loss.

"King, the council of Jingdong Commercial City has just unanimously passed a resolution to not recognize the throne of Zhao Huan, a thief who stole the country, and to elect His Highness as the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"

The person who is announcing the decision of the board of directors to Zhao Kai is Ji Yi's cousin, Ji Kui, the shopkeeper of JD Bank.

Manager Ji Da is now also a council officer (member) of JD.com! When news of the "retro revolution" in Kaifeng Prefecture and Ji Yi's murder came, the first thing that Ji Da and the traitors of JD.com felt was horrified.

They did not think about rebelling and resisting the Song Dynasty court. Instead, they thought about how to be loyal to this "retro court" in exchange for protection from the court.

When the news that the Great Zhou Republic did not recognize Zhao Huan as the legal emperor came, the profitable businessmen in Jingdong began to be shaken. Some of them were attracted by Wu Meiniang and wanted to support Zhao Kai to Jiangning.

However, this matter was not unanimously supported. It was not until the news that the court planned to transfer gold, silver and copper coins from Xuzhou came and triggered a large-scale bank run that the entire Jingdong Market's attitude towards the court underwent a fundamental change.

If the margin in Xuzhou Dasong Bank is removed, more than half of the people in JD.com will go bankrupt! This also includes JD.com's shopkeeper Ji Kui!

So at this time, the unscrupulous businessmen were desperate and had to go to war with this retro court... and the law of uniting the country that Wu Meiniang and Su Shi highly recommended became the only way out for the rich merchants in the market.

Either they will lose their money and jump into the East China Sea, or they will fight for tyranny with the whole country.

Choose for yourself!
Chapter completed!