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After using the tool man, Zhao Kuanghuan looked at his sweetheart: "Qiao Tong, hello."

Qiao Wuhua subconsciously: "Too... Zhao Tonghao."

Zhao Kuanghuan said: "Qiao Tong is very good at his homework, did he do it at home before?"

Qiao Wuhua: "I was educated when I was six years old, and I went to a girls' school for two years."

"So that's the case, no wonder Mr. often praises you." Zhao Kuanghuan suddenly didn't know what to do.

Qiao Wuhua said: "Zhao Tong's archery skills are superb, no one in the school can match, the little girl admires it very much."

"Where, where," Zhao Kuanghuan said modestly, and then boasted, "I can also ride, and I have a pony at home. If you are interested, I will take you to ride a horse when you have a holiday."

Qiao Wuhua said: "It's always indecent for a woman to ride a horse."

Zhao Kuanghuan said: "It is very elegant. There is an aunt in the palace who is also good at riding."

The two chatted, making Lu Yicheng a little confused, and the situation in front of him seemed to be a little bit wrong.

With good habits and good looks, Lu Yicheng naturally admires this kind of lesbian.But if the crown prince also likes it, what should we do?So, it was Lu Yicheng's turn to be worried, but unfortunately there was no one to complain.

Since then, the prince has finally become more and more familiar with his sweetheart, and even often makes appointments to do homework together.

But he didn't dare to reveal his secrets when he went home on weekends, and only talked about Zhang Fang's hard work with his parents as an interesting story.

Zhao Han was very satisfied, and said with a smile, "This principal is right. To teach and educate people, teaching is only a means, and educating talents is the root. There are many famous teachers in the world who have put the cart before the horse. They only know how to teach, and famous teachers are nothing more than artisans."

Fei Rumei suddenly said, "My husband is very accurate in seeing people, so I specially transferred Mr. Zhang from Jiangxi."

Zhao Han laughed loudly: "You can actually flatter me."

Fei Rulan said: "Father and mother are going back to Jiangxi for the New Year, before leaving, I want to invite them to the palace to meet again."

"This is a trivial matter, and there is no need to report it," Zhao Han sighed again. "If they were not born in the royal family, the children could move around more and live with their grandfather's house for a while."

Zhao Kuanghuan suddenly asked: "Mother, what is it like on the other side of Qianshan Mountain?"

Fei Rulan smiled and said: "This is not good. There are mountains and water. There are many tea mountains, and tea trees are planted all over the mountains. There are many paper-making workshops, and the whole town is making paper. There are merchant ships in the river all year round... I want to go back and have a look.”

Fei Rulan can still miss home, but Zhao Han has no hometown to think about.

Mainly Zhao Zhenlan and Zhao Zhenfang, who occasionally miss their hometown.I also sent people back to my hometown to visit, but after wars, plagues and natural disasters, all the old neighbors have fled, and only a few nearby gentry are still there.

The parents' bones were finally known to be "buried" in mass graves under the narration of Uncle Guoqiao Liu Mang.

Liu Mang, the earl, also got an errand to take people to the mass grave in Tianjin to repair it a little bit.

Surely they couldn't tell whose bones it was, so they simply fenced them up and planted trees, and erected their parents' tombstones there.For the other dead in the mass graves, set up a common monument to the tombs of the mourners all over the world.

It's really hard to build forests, and it's impossible to use good land as a mass grave, it's all saline-alkali land that can't grow crops.

On the anniversary of his parents' death next year, Zhao Han plans to take the whole family to pay respects to his parents' grave in Tianjin.By the way, I was visiting the north, and at the same time I was going out to relax. I lived in the Forbidden City all day and was bored.

It's a waste of time and money for Yu Jia to travel. Fortunately, there is a Grand Canal along the way.

Chapter 603 [Currency Diplomacy]

Just when the prince was fighting in groups, Russia built the city of Upper Angarask on the shore of Lake Baikal.

It was the territory of Buryatia Mongolia. It wasn't that they couldn't defeat the Cossacks, but the more they went north, the more desolate and cold they became. . .Buryat Mongolia gathered its troops and went to crusade against the Cossacks in a mighty manner. The Cossacks ran away when they saw the situation was not good, and went to the northernmost end of Lake Baikal to rebuild the city.

These Cossacks didn't have many cavalry, but they had quite a lot of ships. Their shipbuilding skills beat the Mongols.

The boats of the Cossacks can be used for fishing, and they can also be used to settle down and plunder the natives of Western Lia along the river.You can even go ashore and drag it in the snow.Building a city next to Lake Baikal this time is tantamount to gaining a firm foothold. The west and north shores of Lake Baikal are all controlled by Cossack villains.

And to the east, Sauron's tribes, Beishan savages, Kamunikan, Daqiur...Because the Manchu Qing lost control, these tribes fell into a big melee.

The so-called melee means that today you send dozens of people to raid and plunder my territory.Tomorrow I will send hundreds of people to rob you of your property and capture some of your tribe as prisoners.The tribes of Sauron were originally the strongest, but they fell into civil war, because they were not of the same clan, but were forcibly brought together by the Qing Dynasty.

The tribe who donated Dongzhu to Zhao Hanjin received some food support, and now they are living relatively well.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, Jin Yu, the Minister of North Korea who set off in the summer, fell seriously ill on the way, and finally came to Nanjing to meet the Chinese emperor.

Jin Yu can be regarded as Zhang Juzheng of North Korea.

Historically, he implemented the reform of the "Datong Law" in North Korea. The main contents were: standardizing the currency system, apportioning Ding Ding to Mu, unifying taxation, and combating corruption.

It was also under Jin Yu's reform that the Joseon Dynasty, which was on the verge of collapse, slammed on the brakes and slammed back a mouthful of blood. The king still had money and food to overhaul the palace.Even when the treasury was sufficient, the king became overwhelmed with self-confidence, and planned to form a hundred thousand firearms within ten years, and send troops to the Northern Expedition to help the Ming Dynasty restore its land.

North Korea in this time and space is worse than in history.A major uprising broke out last year. Although it was successfully suppressed, King Li Hao finally came to his senses and started the "Datong Law" reform several years in advance.

When he fell ill halfway, Jin Yu had finished reading "The Collection of Datong" and regarded the Chinese emperor as his confidant, but at the same time felt that the Chinese emperor was too radical.

In Jin Yu's view, it is enough to divide the land into acres, and there is really no need to divide the land from landlords.

As for "Three Origins", Jin Yu very much agrees.But dare not take the initiative to spread it, because it will offend the king and cause his subsequent reforms to be abandoned.

Walking out of the bookstore and witnessing the prosperity of China along the way, Jin Yu's determination to reform was further strengthened.

The little demon in the temple is strong, and there are more than eight kings in Chiqian. The party struggle in North Korea is more severe than that in Ming Dynasty.

100 years ago, the descendants of North Korea's founding heroes and early civil officials formed the old and corrupt "Hunjiu School".Officials and scholars from small and medium-sized landlords urgently demanded to break the monopoly of the elites, so they formed the "Scholar School".

The supremacy of the "Scholar School" led to a struggle between kingship and ministerial power, which turned into a battle between kingship and admonishment power.

The king first used the Shilin faction to attack the Xunjiu faction who threatened him, and then borrowed the remaining Xunjiu faction to stab the Shilin faction backhand.Finally, the power of the three parties was balanced, and the king sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.

The Shihlin faction, which was hit hard, also had internal problems, so it split into the Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party based on the region.

At the end of Ming Dynasty, the Xiren Party controlled the government, and then the party struggle resumed. The Xiren Party split into four factions: the Luo Party, the Yuan Party, the Shan Party, and the Han Party.

After Li Hao killed his father and usurped power, he first killed a group of Luo party, because the Luo party was the strongest.

Then the Shandang was used, because the Shandang were all hermits in the field and had no foundation and backing in the court, which was very convenient for the king to control.

Unexpectedly, the Shan Party represented the interests of the local gentry and quickly grew into a behemoth.So Li Hao, the king of North Korea, used the Han Party to balance it out, and Jin Yu was the leader of the Han Party!

"Give a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Han smiled and said, "I heard that Your Excellency is a great Korean Confucian?"

"I don't dare to be a great Confucianist," Jin Yu hurriedly said modestly, "I just grasped some superficial principles of Neo-Confucianism (Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism)."

Jin Yu has just been promoted and reused, and his official position is not very high, but the reform strategy has been set.

After some conversation, Jin Yu explained his intentions for coming: "Your Majesty, my minister's visit to Nanjing this time is because the lower kingdom admires the upper kingdom's political strategy and boldly intends to emulate it. In matters of reform and reform, currency should go first. Please follow The silver and copper of the country are exchanged for the silver and copper coins of the upper country."

"Exchanging money?" Zhao Han was a little surprised, he didn't expect such a good thing to come to his door.

North Korea intends to carry out reforms, and the first step seems to be to standardize the currency system, so it wants to take the initiative to introduce Chinese silver and copper coins.

Historically, Jin Yu exchanged money with Emperor Shunzhi. The first time he exchanged 15 Wen coins, and then he exchanged more than 130 million Wen coins.

The second exchange was too much money, and in the capital area, it all flowed into the market.As a result, inflation was created in the capital area, but the local people did not see the money and could not use it to pay taxes at all.The Korean people complained a lot, and the king had to order to ban the circulation of Chinese copper coins.

At that time, they planned to use Chinese copper coins as tax currency after the reform.After self-defeating, rice had to be designated as North Korea's only tax product.

Jin Yu said: "China's silver and copper coins have already circulated in the coastal cities of our country. The money of the upper country is exquisite, and the people of the lower country love it, so please exchange for more Chinese coins. In this way, the people have Chinese money, and they will be able to use it in the future. Pay taxes in Chinese money."

Zhao Han subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and asked, "You exchanged Chinese money, how did the Chinese money flow into the people, and how did the rural people get the money?"

Jin Yu said: "Exchange the money to the merchants in Gyeonggi, and the merchants will circulate it."

What the hell.

Zhao Han, who doesn't understand the principles of economics at all, knows that this approach will definitely explode.

The basis of Zhang Juzheng's tax reform is the money and grain shops widely distributed in villages and towns.People in nearby villages and towns can exchange grain for money. Although they are often deceived by landlords, they can eventually be exchanged for silver to pay taxes.

As for North Korea, the money-making technology is poor, and it loses as much as it makes, so it turns to China for money.North Korea has been collecting taxes in kind, and rural areas are generally in the stage of bartering. If private money and food lines are not spread, no amount of Chinese money will flow into the hands of farmers.

This money will only circulate around the capital. Once there is too much inflow in the short term, the inflation will explode in minutes.

The reason why Zhao Han knew so clearly about the situation in North Korea was because a minister had reported it.Over the years, North Korea has been forced to sell grain, and most of the time the money cannot be used, and it must be exchanged for goods such as cloth.

And Chinese maritime merchants often barter in North Korea.

After the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, more and more people from Jiangnan went to Liaodong and North Korea to do business.Chinese silver dollars and copper coins were gradually accepted by North Koreans, and they could only be used in Seoul.

"You can't do it like this," Zhao Han said to the maid, "call Fei Chun here, and we'll take a carriage here and there."

Fei Chun soon entered the palace on a royal chariot, and Zhao Han introduced the situation.

Ever since, Fei Chun began to explain patiently, and designed a coin circulation framework for North Korea.Still follow the Ming Dynasty's method. After the North Korean government exchanged money, it lent money to merchants and gentry everywhere.Those merchants and gentry lent money to the next level of gentry.The lower-level gentry and landlords opened money and grain shops in villages and towns to exchange grain for money when farmers paid taxes.

After Jin Yu listened, he carefully considered the pros and cons.He could fully imagine that farmers eager to exchange grain for money in order to pay taxes would definitely be severely slaughtered by landlords.

But it can only be done in this way. Farmers in Ming Dynasty have always paid taxes in exchange for silver. This is how they have always done—they can not be ripped off by the money and grain shop, and can directly transport the grain to the county government, and then be charged by the official for extra fire consumption.

A bright light flashed across his head, and Jin Yu was suddenly delighted, because he thought of the benefits of doing so.

He is responsible for coming to China to exchange money, and he must be the one who decides to lend money to local gentry in the future.Whoever lends Chinese money is a kind of power, so as to win over and divide gentry and merchants, which can effectively reduce the resistance to reform.It can also make your own power stronger and completely overwhelm the Shan Party during party struggles.

"Thank you for your enlightenment!" Jin Yu got up and bowed to Fei Chun.

As for how to exchange copper and silver for money, Zhao Han doesn't need to deal with such details, it can be handled by Datong Bank.

Anyway, the Chinese government is definitely not losing money, and the North Korean government is also making money. This is the profit brought by the cost of minting coins for both parties.

After sending the North Korean Zhang Juzheng away, Fei Chun asked in confusion, "Your Majesty, why do you want to help North Korea stabilize the currency system?"

Zhao Han sighed and said: "North Korea is in a state of decline, and it needs to be revitalized as soon as possible. In a short period of time, it is impossible for China to expand in North Korea. It is only necessary to develop steadily in its border areas. In this case, it is better to use business and Currency, gradually controlling the ruling and opposition parties in North Korea. North Korea’s monarchs and ministers cannot be allowed to mess around. Once they are damaged, Chinese coins will not be accepted by North Korean people, and Chinese merchants will suffer losses at that time.”

"I see, Your Majesty is so wise!" Fei Chun hurriedly cupped his hands.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "You boy, stop flattering me."

Fei Chun also laughed: "This isn't flattery, it's just from the bottom of my heart."

Zhao Han said with emotion: "This year's disasters in several provinces have finally survived, thanks to your maneuvering around."

Fei Chun said helplessly: "I just hope that the weather will be smooth next year, and it's best not to fight a big battle."

"It's not extravagant to hope that the weather will be smooth, as long as there are no major disasters." Zhao Han's expectations for God are not high.

Today is a happy event. If China's silver and copper coins can become North Korea's tax currency, it will be able to earn a lot of money every year from now on.

The North Korean monarchs and ministers did not realize the advantages and disadvantages at all, but felt that they had taken advantage of it.

After all, the cost of transporting copper and silver to China for money is lower than directly minting coins in North Korea.

Chapter 604 [Jade Out of Kungang]

The sixth year of the beginning of the Republic of China, 4344 in the lunar calendar, and 1647 in the AD.

As soon as the Korean envoys left in Kaichun, the envoys of the Yeerqiang Khanate arrived.These guys from Xinjiang set off in May last year and arrived in Nanjing after walking for more than half a year.

They came not only to pay tribute, but also to do business.

The tea-horse trade with China has always been regarded as the "golden road" by the Yeerqiang Khanate.Whoever dares to block this golden road will be attacked by the Khanate, and even if he can't win, he will have to fight hard.

Since Daming is dead, then establish diplomatic relations with Datong.

The Zun Datong New Dynasty was the suzerain state, and paid tribute once every two or three years, and received some silk and other rewards by the way. .The tribute trade is still secondary, what is really important is the tea horse trade, exchanging Xinjiang horses for tea in the pass!

Ma Hemu was a diplomat of Shihaul, the Yeerqiang Kingdom.

He escorted hundreds of camels and many special products from Xinjiang.Half of the camels were tribute, and the remaining half were vehicles, carrying goods rewarded by the Chinese emperor back home.

As early as the Wanli period, the Yeerqiang Khanate stopped paying tribute and did business directly with the frontier army and merchants in Gansu.

This time the tribute was resumed because the tea horse trade was cut off, the Datong Army no longer bought Xinjiang horses, and the Han merchants did not buy horses either—horses with a qualified size would be forcibly purchased by the imperial court, and coupled with the long distance, they could not make any money at all. to what money.

In northern China, people's livelihood is in decline, and Ma Hemu thinks it's nothing more than that.

When they arrived in Henan, they gradually became prosperous.Entering Anhui and Jiangsu, Mahemu became more and more shocked.Arriving in Yangzhou, Ma Hemu was so frightened by the bustling city that he couldn't speak.

Nanjing is like a kingdom of heaven.

When Ma Hemu walked in the Forbidden City, he thought of King Khan's palace and felt like a little country lord.

"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor of Shang Kingdom!"

Ma Hemu knelt down on his knees, this was his own voluntary, originally he only had to bend down to salute.Not only did he kneel down, but he also threw himself on the ground, so that he could show a gesture of submission.

"Excuse me, and give me a seat." Zhao Han enjoyed the feeling of all nations coming to court.

Mahemu Xie En sat down.

Zhao Han said softly, "Your Chinese is pretty good."

Ma Hemu said: "There are often Han businessmen who come to Yeerqiang to do business. I used to be a businessman and came from a poor background. Because I did a good job in business and could speak Chinese, I was awarded the title of Shihaul by the Sudan of our country. The official position of Haul is responsible for dealing with other countries."