Chapter 71 The economic crisis is coming!
The servant’s name is Su Yu. According to Ouyang Bian, there must be mutton and fish. Only when the mutton and fish are together can it be called fresh!
The servant named Su Yu made a decision without authorization when the master was sleeping soundly. He decided to let the letter go to where it should go. So, the servant named Su Yu sent the letter to the post office in the drizzle and spent a few cents to buy stamps, but he was in trouble when writing the address.
This letter was given to the Emperor of Daxia, but they were in the territory of the Song Dynasty. If the letter was written on the address of the Xia Dynasty, not only could the letter be delivered to the man, but his master would have to become a spy who colluded with the enemy.
The servant could only prepare to go back dejectedly, but accidentally ran into someone.
So this letter, which was not originally intended to be sent, was transferred from the south of the Song Dynasty to Bianjing City through secret channels, and was quickly sent into the palace, and came to the hands of whom may be the most powerful person in the world today.
Seeing Su Shi's method of sheep and scorpion described in the letter, Ouyang Bian laughed first, but then shed tears, and shook his head and sighed: "Zizhan, Zizhan, why are you going to do this!"
Although what happened between these two old friends was unforgettable between each other, what attracted the attention of the world now was the war between the Liao and Xia border.
The Liao Kingdom broke through the Great Wall of Water that Daxia followed the Song Dynasty and blocked the Liao Kingdom's cavalry with the Thousand Mile Water Great Wall. However, according to the news, the Liao Kingdom's army had broken through the Great Wall of Water and rushed towards Zhending Prefecture and Taiyuan Prefecture.
Such news made the Southern Song court in Jiangnan ready to move.
"I believe that at this time, we should attack on both sides. Our Song Dynasty and our brotherly Kingdom, Liao Kingdom, will defeat the wolfish ambition of the rioter Ouyang Bian, and take back Huaibei, or even Hetao!"
Cai Jing said loudly.
Since going south, Zhao Xu has relied more and more on Cai Jing, especially the implementation of the Municipal Change Law hosted by Cai Jing in Jiangnan, which has made the imperial treasury more abundant.
Cai Jing was also a master who was good at climbing along the pole. He took this opportunity to climb Zhao Xu and was soon appointed as the governor of the government. Because the city Yishu expanded rapidly, he controlled more and more people and was able to confront Zeng Bu.
Zeng Bu was relatively conservative in power. Faced with this war between Liao and Xia, Zeng Bu believed that there were so many wars between Liao and Song, and facts proved that those who took the initiative to attack could not win in the end.
By analogy, the Xia Dynasty attacked the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty was defeated and drove out of Huaibei. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Xia Dynasty is not only stronger than the Song Dynasty, but even the Xia Dynasty's strength is not comparable to that of the Liao Kingdom.
This is a logical question, so Zeng Bu believes that the more you enter the places controlled by the Xia Kingdom, the more you go, the more likely you will encounter failure, which is inevitable.
If the Song Dynasty wants to continue its national destiny, the best way is to develop southward and overseas. If you have to entangle with the Xia Kingdom on land, the only one who fails in the end is the Song Dynasty.
Many people agreed with Zeng Bu's remarks, but Cai Jing, who was originally under Zeng Bu, sang a counter-tune with Zeng Bu on this matter.
Cai Jing strongly criticized Zeng Bu, saying that Zeng Bu was a surrender faction, and perhaps he was ready to surrender to Ouyang Bian. He asked His Majesty to arrest Zeng Bu and investigate the relationship inside carefully so as not to harm the Song Dynasty.
Zeng Bu's face turned blue with anger and wanted to cure Cai Jing, but surprisingly, Cai Que and Cai Jing occupied the united front.
Previously, the two fellow clans named Cai actually had different political views and sometimes had some conflicts, but at this time they attacked Zeng Bu at the same time, which was surprisingly very good.
Zeng Bu naturally would not give up, so he quickly mobilized the Censorate to review Cai Jing and Cai Que's officials, and drove many officials who supported Cai Jing and were removed from office.
Cai Jing and Cai Que naturally would not sit still and wait for death. They quickly launched the Censorate to impeach Zeng Bu's officials, and also asked some institutions under their control to attack Zeng Bu's powerful arms, which greatly damaged Zeng Bu's group.
For a time, the imperial court of the Song Dynasty was in chaos, and the officials of the court attacked each other. This political storm even spread between prefectures and counties. Many people were excluded from the local area. Some people rose to the top, some were dismissed for no reason, while others were transformed from common people to court officials...
The Song Dynasty, who came to Hangzhou, began to become magical.
Here, anything can happen.
The court was busy fighting, but the market was filled with sorrow.
The Municipal Yishuo levies a lot of money, or is a clever plunder. Since the court moved south, the Municipal Yishuo began to open a prosperous place in Jiangnan. The Municipal Yishuo seemed to be a giant crocodile suddenly entered a pond.
The merchants in Jiangnan all cut off their arms to survive, either selling their enterprises at a low price or giving up half of their shares. If this is the case, it might be fine. The problem is that because of the shock of the Shiyisi, a strange crisis broke out directly into the prosperous Jiangnan area, where business is prosperous.
This crisis seems strange in the eyes of merchants, but also in the eyes of the court.
There is no disaster, but people find that the money they have in their hands is getting less and less, and the prices on the market are getting higher and higher.
Zhao Xu thought someone was hoarding the goods, so he ordered a search, but after searching, he found that no one was instructing him, and prices seemed to rise for granted until they rose so much that everyone could not afford to eat.
Of course they didn't know that this was the Song Dynasty forcibly promoting the rapid development of the economy under various reform measures of Ouyang Bian. Originally, this large inflation would have happened in Ouyang Bian's plan, but Ouyang Bian had a plan to resolve it.
However, when Ouyang Bian comes to resolve the issue, when this great inflation in the Song Dynasty occurred, the Song Dynasty had changed things and people.
The emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty watched the Song Dynasty slide down quickly in amazement. Zhao Xu realized that if this situation was allowed to continue, the Song Dynasty might collapse with a loud bang one day.
So Zhao Xu ordered Zeng Bu, who was the best at economics in the Secretariat, to solve this problem. Zeng Bu happily accepted the order. The first thing he did was to repel Cai Jing's Shiyi Department, return the shares of many companies to the merchants, and promised the merchants that they would strictly follow the commercial tax.
Zeng Bu hoped to rebuild the credibility of the Song Dynasty court in this way, so Cai Jing naturally couldn't give up and reported Zeng Bu to the court. However, Zhao Xu was still looking at the follow-up matters and did not draw a conclusion.
However, the next thing became even more strange. With Zeng Bu's measures, the merchants took back their shares and the market returned to normal, but something strange happened.
The merchants found that their things could not be sold!
Chapter completed!