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Volume 2 Chapter 865 Sword of Darkness, Heart of Light (Part 1)

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    "According to some declassified documents, the madness of the Shuo Party during the Yonghe period may have been promoted by the Holy Ancestor secretly sending people behind the scenes." The professor on the podium finished telling this history and then said.  "This statement needs to be verified, but some of the bank department's foolish actions were indeed instigated by Sun Jue sent by the Holy Ancestor." "But we cannot deny the greatness of the Holy Ancestor. The Shuo Party was too powerful at that time, and Wu Zong  The ancestral art of always wanting to use balance and conflicting opinions has led to Wang Jiefu and the Holy Ancestor constantly making compromises. Only by completely breaking them can a new order be established. " "So some people talk about the Holy Ancestor.  , is to use the sword of darkness to hold the heart of light. Please pay attention to this. The means can be dark, but the heart cannot be dark" "Nearly two hundred years have passed since the Yonghe Party struggle. During these two hundred years, the other side has been resolutely enforcing Wang Ju.  The policy of the People's Republic of China is that anyone who disagrees with the Central Plains and China will be killed without mercy. This is also the most important system on the other side.  After Shaosheng, the Song Dynasty also intended to maintain good relations with the other side, and many kings even married Song Dynasty princesses. This made the people on the other side always regard the Song Dynasty as Zhengshuo. In fact, although the other side divided the three kingdoms, it was clearly stipulated that the three kingdoms were the Central Plains.  In the Jisu Kingdom of the dynasty, the leader of the Three Kingdoms is only called the king, not the emperor, king, or emperor.  Although everyone respects Wang Ju very much, they only refer to him as the Holy Ancestor, not the Holy Emperor.  Of course, in the constitutional monarchy system like the other side, the power of the king is infinitely decentralized, and the government is changed to a change system. Everyone has lost their ambition to be king and hegemony. In addition, with the system established by Wang Juli, there is no soil for ambition towards the Central Plains dynasty.  .  Under this good relationship, the Song Dynasty also encouraged landless people to migrate to the other side, making the other side prosperous rapidly. Of course, this also eased the population pressure of the Song Dynasty.  But with the help of the other side and the improvement of transportation, the Song Dynasty successively wiped out the Liao Kingdom, the Black Khan, the Huala Muzi, and the Tubo tribes, making the territory exceed that of the Tang Dynasty at its peak.  However, due to the long time since the founding of the country, the politics of the Song Dynasty deteriorated again, with serious annexations and serious polarization between the rich and the poor. The ministers and soldiers were Wentian and Wuxi, and they were almost terminally ill. Even with the continuous help from the other side, they could not stop the spread of this trend. On the contrary,  Many people within the Song Dynasty believed that Bian'an used his ministers to insult the emperor. They believed that Bian'an was interfering in the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty and overriding the Song Dynasty. This led to many ministers becoming increasingly repelled by Bian'an.  So that the other side gradually gave up on the Song Dynasty, and some people with long-term vision began to prepare for a new dynasty.  "However, because Wang Ju left some prophecies, the other side has long been mentally prepared for today's Song Dynasty.  But we cannot deny that this foundation was developed rapidly because the Song Dynasty had been strong for a long time and the other side relied on the Song Dynasty.  Because of these two hundred years of unification, the economy of the Song Dynasty developed rapidly, and various technologies also developed rapidly. It almost joined forces with the other side to enter the early stage of industrial civilization. Capitalism within the Song Dynasty also officially sprouted, laying a solid foundation for the new dynasty that followed.  .  The gains and losses are worth learning from. Sanzhou punished the Song Dynasty by raising the inheritance tax by 20%. Each household does not need to pay inheritance tax on the standard property, but for the excess, it must pay the equivalent of two  Only by paying money and silk, or having the government send someone to calculate, and cut off 20% of the property for the government to handle, can you inherit the inheritance of your father's generation, which can be used to combat hereditary, monopoly and mergers.  This inheritance tax is a tax reform initiated by Wang Ju during his reign of Shaosheng. The first reform was the commercial tax. The over-tax in the commercial tax was not changed, but the current tax was significantly adjusted.  For things related to people's livelihood, the current tax is only 2% to 4%. For example, the tax on food is only 2%.  Various pit mines are between 4% and 8%, and various alcoholic drinks and luxury goods are up to 10%.  The Municipal Shipping Department's foreign or imported goods have also been adjusted, with only 5% for people's livelihood, and 10% for luxury goods such as the Song Dynasty, but tax evaders will be severely punished.  Homestead tax is also different from that of the Song Dynasty. The other side has established a standard. Ordinary residential buildings are not taxed. Above this standard, a tax rate of one to two thousandths is levied every year, and one thousandth is imposed on someone.  According to the assessment, those who have made contributions to the country and society can enjoy this qualification, otherwise it will be only two out of a thousand.  The second is the inheritance tax. Wang Ju raised it to 15%, but also set a standard to evaluate the house, land, and other assets in the family. Ordinary families do not have to pay this inheritance tax, but  Above this standard, you must pay a 15% inheritance tax. However, some families own all real estate, so they can be allowed to repay it over ten years according to the bank's minimum loan rate.  If it exceeds ten years, then someone will be sent to forcibly cut off the property and conduct an auction.  These systems are for everyone, including Wang Ju himself. If he dies and distributes his property to his three sons, even if it is the property of the royal family, he will still have to pay inheritance tax.  At the same time, the two taxes were further reduced, and some martyr households, filial sons, andPeople, teachers, etc. are all exempt from the two taxes, but this does not include officials.  Then another rule was made. If the children of officials marry each other, their children cannot enter the officialdom. If the children of officials marry each other, or if they marry local powerful and wealthy people, the officials themselves cannot enter the provincial level.  In officialdom, that is, if those who want to hold provincial-level official positions, their children must marry children from poorer families to combat hereditary inheritance.  After the introduction of these systems, some wealthy people began to return home, and the inheritance tax was too high.  The other side did not stop it, but it was the return of these people that began to bring the situation on the other side to the Central Plains.  At this time, the relationship between the Song Dynasty and the other side was getting better and better. The other side intentionally opened up forty or fifty states and allowed the Song Dynasty to send officials. Therefore, the Song Dynasty deliberately sent many officials to hone their skills.  Look at how difficult it is to be an official on the other side, and look at how comfortable it is for you to be an official, so should you serve the court more?  In fact, it is not as difficult as the Song Dynasty imagined. As long as they are not greedy and do not make serious mistakes, as long as there is a similar official in one generation, it can ensure that three generations can live a better life.  Even in a system like the other side, officials are still officials, and there are many advantages. It can only be said that it is much better than the officials in the Song Dynasty.  However, after being tempered by the other side, as long as the officials sent there study hard, they will usually become good officials when they return. In the later "Super Golden" 100 years of the Song Dynasty, nine prime ministers had the experience of going to the other side to serve as officials.  .  However, a hundred years after Shaosheng, the Song Dynasty was at a loss and had no opponents, and gradually moved towards the throne.  And with the distaste for the other side, the Song Dynasty made an even more wrong move and once again issued an edict that the people were not allowed to move.  This was a fatal mistake. Although with the help of the other side, many new technologies appeared, including the improvement of various grain seeds, and Liaodong was fully developed, at this time the number of households in the Song Dynasty reached nearly 60 million, coupled with the powerful officials  Exploitation and the intensification of various contradictions finally led to the outbreak of this great uprising.  It¡¯s not that the system on the other side is perfect. The main reason is that the other side is too vast. Although its own population is multiplying rapidly, and millions of households have migrated from the Song Dynasty in the intervening hundred years, the population base is too small, and the total population is still  With less than 200 million people and an increase in grain production, it will take at least four hundred years before a land and population crisis occurs. But by then, I am afraid that the other side will have already entered "modernization."  With the news that there was a great uprising in the Song Dynasty that almost swept the country, what is funny is that these rebels brought all the nondescript systems from the other side over.  When the news reached the other side, many people were dumbfounded.  Although it is a good thing, it also gives the other side a warning.  After the three royal families heard about it, they quickly cut their expenses and donated nearly half of their property shares for disaster relief and poverty relief in various continents.  The three states also separately announced that those who have family members of officials doing business must be strictly scrutinized. Those who have children serving as officials must start from the grassroots level, and when they are promoted, they must go through a more stringent performance assessment, so as not to be like the Song Dynasty.  The marriage with the government led to officials protecting each other, which quickly led to decline.  Because of this, professors in the college once again took out this period of history and lectured on it again and again.  Wang Ju¡¯s life was not completely upright. For example, in the battle of Yongle City, various signs proved that Wang Ju might have known in advance that the Song Dynasty would conquer Xia and that it would fail after the expedition.  And no one dares to underestimate Wang Ju, so he is a saint, such as science. When Wang Ju got old, he divided everything on the other side into three, and began to write books and establish studies with peace of mind. Then he left many theorems, formulas and assumptions, and the advancement of science on the other side.  It was the various scholars who continued to study the theorems and assumptions left by Wang Ju that succeeded.  As long as you study along these assumptions, you will make progress, but if you try to circumvent these assumptions, there will be no progress.  But without Wang Ju¡¯s silent attention, Zhao Xu would not have been able to delegate power to Wang Ju. Similarly, there would be no possibility for Wang Ju to succeed in reforming the system, let alone destroy Xixia, defeat the Liao Kingdom, and lay the foundation for the subsequent recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.  And Wang Ju¡¯s possible secret promotion role in Gao Taotao¡¯s administration.  If Gao Taotao, Wen Yanbo, Liu Zhi and others were not allowed to go crazy, the upper-class elites of the Song Dynasty would not be completely disappointed with the Shuo Party. Then with Zhao Xu in charge and Zhang Dun and Zhang Shangying in charge, the power of the Shuo Party would still be like a ghost in the Song Dynasty.  Wandering in the sky, Zhang and Zhang could not fully restore Wang Ju's restructuring, and they could not concentrate their efforts to capture the sixteen states of Yanyun in one fell swoop.  Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, Wang Ju was too successful in the front. The more successful he was in the front, the crazier he was in the back, which will form a sharp contrast.  Wang Ju's possible promotion effect made the Shuo Party even more crazy, and also made many people in the Song Dynasty miserable in those years. This was a darker method than just sitting back and watching the Yongle City defeat.  But if he doesn't do this, he will even force Wang Ju to break his promise and have to return to the Song Dynasty to take charge of the overall situation. Is he really going to ignore the other side?  What is important right now is undoubtedly the Song Dynasty.??What will be important in the future is the other side, and here will be related to the fate of the entire ethnic group in the future It is this method that made the Song Dynasty enter the long period of resurgence. Without a rejuvenated Song Dynasty, the other side cannot flourish. After all, the other side was unable to flourish at that time.  The population was sparsely populated and the products were limited, including trade, which had to rely on the Song Dynasty to continue to develop.  Of course, the gold, silver, minerals, and technology on the other side also contributed to the long rise of the Song Dynasty.  This is a perfect and long win-win era.  So the professor said that the means can be dark, but the heart cannot be dark After the professor finished speaking, he announced that get out of class was over, and some students continued to open their books and read the history behind it.  ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ In recent years, the ministers have been treating Zhao Xu as a child who doesn¡¯t understand anything and does whatever they want.  But how can a seven-year-old boy who is familiar with the Analects of Confucius have a mind comparable to that of an ordinary boy?  Besides, Wang Ju taught him step by step for so long.  It¡¯s just that Zhao Xu had to endure it in order to prevent accidents.  Even if these people forcefully divorce his fianc¨¦e and force her to remarry someone else, I still want to smile to these people.  Thinking of this, the more he spoke, the sharper his tone became: "Dafang, have you ever studied with Zhang Zai?" Lu Dafang can't be completely regarded as Zhang Zai's student, but he did consult Zhang Zai for a period of time, and his knowledge is boundless.  , A master is a teacher, so to a certain extent Lu Dafang can be regarded as Wang Ju's senior brother, at least the two of them are not related.  But this is the most ironic part.  Lu Dafang has been unfairly accused. He, Fan Chunren, Lu Gongzhu, Wang Cun and others belong to the old party, but they are all moderate old parties. Their methods are not radical and their actions are not cruel. How much has Lu Dafang done in the government in recent years?  It plays a certain restrictive role on the radicals and prevents the country from further deterioration, although this restriction may not be what Wang Ju likes.  But Lu Dafang did make three serious mistakes.  Because he had always been at odds with Zhang Dun, when Liang Tao attacked Zhang Dun, he did not rescue Zhang Dun. Instead, he added insult to injury, causing the situation to escalate. Soon the Zhang Party, Cai Party, and Anshi Party appeared.  Later, Liu Zhi and others broke out into the Wang Ju Party. Although Lu Dafang fought, he was afraid of the power of Wen Yanbo and Liu Zhi and did not fight hard.  Therefore, many famous generals on the front line were relegated to the south together, and Kumamoto died as a result.  Not to mention Wang Ju in this list, You Shixiong and Zhong Shidao were also students of Zhang Zai.  Even if Lu Dafang can¡¯t abolish public service for personal reasons, Lu Dafang doesn¡¯t have much hatred with the New Party members, so he can see things more comprehensively, but did he stand in the position of the Song Dynasty to stop the Shuo Party¡¯s perverse behavior?  Fortunately, Wang Ju's arrangement prevented the two rebellions of the Liao Kingdom from dragging down their pace. Otherwise, when the Liao army relied on the Song Dynasty's frontline soldiers to become angry, panicked, and their morale was turbulent, the army would move south, and the Song Dynasty would be in serious danger.  The last one is that if he did not dare to make a difference because of the constraints of Wen Yanbo, Liu Zhi and others, then Wen Yanbo retired, Liu Zhi and others were demoted from the court, Fan Chunren recalled him, and Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren worked together  , they were still able to correct the chaos in time, but they were helpless in the face of the country's defeat and the quarrels in the court, so they lost the best opportunity to clear their names.  But it¡¯s not over yet.  The imperial court had just issued an edict to strictly investigate the Duan Tianshui case, and someone came to beat the drum again and complain about injustice.  In order to maintain peace, Wen Yanbo and others ceded Heishan and Wudu Army to the Liao Kingdom.  In fact, it really couldn¡¯t be cut. Wang Ju occupied Hetao and used the Yinshan Mountains, Black Mountains and the Yellow River as natural barriers. However, this area was very vast, so Wang Ju built the Great Wall and many forts to increase its defense strength.  Although it cannot be described as a copper wall or an iron wall, because of this, if the Liao Kingdom wants to break through these defense lines, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. Considering this factor, the Liao Kingdom will not easily send troops to Hetao.  Then the northwest is also protected. At the same time, the Song Dynasty can easily exchange a large number of war horses, livestock, and furs from the Zubu people and Bai Dadan people. It can even easily instigate the relationship between these tribes and the Liao Kingdom, causing them to rebel and weaken them.  The strength of the Liao Kingdom.  However, with this cut, there was no natural danger to rely on, which also meant that the fortifications that Wang Ju had spent so much money and manpower on had lost half of their effectiveness.  ¡°Everyone only knew its military value, but they didn¡¯t expect something else to happen behind the scenes.  There are 100,000 troops scattered along Bianwu Road in northern Shaanxi, but there are less than 30,000 garrison troops. The remainder is more than 30,000 border troops. More than 7,000 Tibetan tribesmen were selected from the nomadic peoples who relied on the Song Dynasty in the north and south Hetao.  The army, as well as the Zhejia army, and the Baojie army on the Lingxia route.  In addition to these troops, there are also some archers and strong men and horses, but they are all militiamen. At most, they are exempt from land tax and are not paid, so they cannot be regarded as formal officers and soldiers. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?The capital army also has more than 3,000 border troops, some of whom are immigrants from the Song Dynasty, and the rest are Han Chinese who originally settled in the Liao Kingdom, accounting for almost half of the households in the Wudu army.  The Song Dynasty ceded it to the Liao State, and Liang Shisu, the new governor of Shengzhou, ordered the entire state's soldiers and civilians to retreat to the rear.  First, the Forbidden Army successfully withdrew, but the retreat of so many soldiers and civilians caused chaos.  At this moment, the Liao army suddenly crossed the Yellow River and came to hand over the troops. They pointed at these people and said, "They are all Khitan people and are not allowed to move."  Liang Shisu did not dare to refute, so the Liao army successfully controlled the Wudu Army and occupied part of Fengzhou, nearly half of Shengzhou. However, these border troops, especially the immigrant border soldiers, all had weapons in their hands, so some of them had  The bloody warriors took the initiative to stand up and resist, but they were leaderless and retreated steadily.  Someone asked Liang Shisu for help, but Liang Shisu remained silent.  So all these resistances were suppressed, and then the Liao State escorted all these frontier troops to the rear. Only the people of the Liao State knew where they were being escorted.  However, some people managed to escape by luck, and a few people came to the capital and prepared to file a complaint. However, after hearing what happened in the court, they did not dare to say anything.  It was not until Zhang Zhang and others were transferred back to the capital one after another, and the emperor took charge, that these few people felt that the opportunity had come, beat the drum and sued Liang Shisu.  It is not easy for the people to sue the government. First, they have to be beaten dozens of times. However, the relatives of these people were also taken to the Liao Kingdom and their whereabouts were unknown, so they ignored them. After being beaten, they reported the situation one by one, and then broke down in tears.  Zhao Xu said something that had never happened since ancient times.  ??Then he added, Crazy!  It was at this time that the real liquidation began. The imperial court issued an edict to thoroughly investigate the Kumamoto case. The eunuch who forced Kumamoto to go south while sick was in the palace. But for a eunuch to be so bold, tell me about the instigator behind the scenes.  Then thoroughly investigate the Shen Kuo case to find out who sent people to follow the rumors created by the Zunyi Army.  How dare these government officials torture a county magistrate to death in the middle of a thorough investigation of the Huaqin case.  Then he gave posthumous gifts to Xiong Ben, Shen Kuo, Hua Qin, Duan Tianshui and others to express his kindness to their families.  With the beginning of the purge, more than two hundred people were demoted, and nearly half of them were stripped of their official positions and sent to the south for resettlement. Yongzhou is a good place. Liu Zhi, you go to this good place.  Half of them went to the south and stayed there.  Zhang Kai and others were also transferred back one after another.  It's not over yet. Then the imperial court released a list of Yonghe's traitorous officials, headed by Wen Yanbo, a total of forty-six people. All "treacherous officials" on this list will not only lose their official positions, but their children will never be favored. Those who have children will be favored.  , immediately dismissed from all official positions.  This is fatal. Why are these officials becoming more and more powerful? It is the Enyin system of the Song Dynasty. When I am an official, my son is an official, and my grandson can also be an official. This is what Wang Ju calls hereditary. In addition, officials  The mutual alliance formed a huge network of insatiable desires, like blood-sucking insects, sucking up all the flesh and blood of the Song Dynasty.  But unlike history, this cleansing was far better than another time and space, but many powerful people applauded it.  Because at this point, the military and political affairs of the Song Dynasty have been completely destroyed. Just like those in the banking department, they have not seen dividends for two years, and even their share capital has shrunk by more than half. Under this situation, how can they not hate the Shuo Party?  They?  This is what Wang Ju said: no destruction, no establishment.  There is another idiom, fight without defeat.  The best example is Washington, who raised 300 slaves and accounted for 2% of the country's income. This is a terrible number. Just like the Chinese government's annual income of more than 100 billion, then 2%, then  That¡¯s a net income of more than 200 billion a year!  It's not scary to have money, but this man was even stingier than Zhou Papi. At that time, the United States had just experienced a war, and many people were so poor that they couldn't even eat. This guy didn't spend a penny to help the people.  What's even more funny is that he once told his family that they were not allowed to bury him after he died, in case he would live again And the great Comrade Lincoln, it was he who gave the order to massacre the Indians.  However, from the perspective of white Americans, their two merits far outweigh their faults, and they are still American heroes.  So Zhang Xun cannibalized human flesh, Yue Fei had a bad temper, and Taizu did make mistakes in his later years, but they were also heroes.  A negative example is Zhao Gou. In fact, Zhao Gou's internal governance was okay and his life was frugal, but he was a foolish king!  No one is perfect, you can make mistakes in the small direction, but you cannot make mistakes in the general direction.  The same is true in the political arena. No matter which country, there are struggles.  But this fight must have a certain bottom line. This bottom line can also be said to not cost lives, or it can be said that no matter how we fight, it can not endanger the country.  In the past few years, the Shuo Party has gone too far and has strode across this bottom line. If the original time and space were not much different, many people would not be able to find it easily.But in this time and space, the contrast between before and after is too great.  After several months of purges, almost all the backbones of the old party were wiped out, especially the forty-odd traitor officials. Because their qualifications for favor were cancelled, it also meant that more than thirty official families were in decline. Maybe they had  Future generations will be able to live up to their expectations and be named on the gold list, but it will not be smooth sailing in the officialdom.  Unless something unexpected happens, Wang Ju, Zhang Dun and Zhang Shangying will not let it happen.  First, the imperial court issued edicts one after another to restore the laws in the first year of Shuozheng.  Then he did something shocking. He issued an edict to collect all 100 million cotton sticks in the capital and burn them all in front of the people of the capital.  At this time, Fan Chunren had not yet been demoted from the court, so he persuaded him tactfully.  It¡¯s such a pity that although this cotton transfer was a mistake, the country used hundreds of thousands of manpower for these cotton transfers, and the cost alone reached tens of millions. We can¡¯t burn them all in one go.  If it really doesn't work, if we treat five as one or ten as one, we can still recover some losses.  Zhang Shangying said: "Otherwise, how can the reputation of Silk Handling be re-established!" At this time, the market price of Cotton Handling had dropped to 200 Wen, and Silk Handling had also fallen sharply, and was only equivalent to about 500 Wen.  ??It is impossible for the country to restore the people's confidence in silk friendship without such a strong man cutting off his arms.  Then, a fleet of fast ships came from the other side, each ship was filled with a large amount of gold, silver and raw copper. The imperial court posted an ultimatum on each bank, saying that the other side would continue to provide large quantities of gold and silver every year until the banking department returned to normal.  .  At the same time, many brokers disembarked from each ship and went to various states to sign a large number of orders. With the orders, all walks of life can resume production.  These economists told another piece of news that the currency of the Song Dynasty was in chaos, and the currencies of the countries in the Great Era were also in chaos. Moreover, it was not only the Great Eclipse, but also the coastal countries of Tianzhu, and the European countries on the other side of the Era.  Seeing this situation, some overseas travelers in the past few years have brought silk handouts to Dashi. The price of silk there was relatively expensive. Moreover, the silk handmade goods from the Song Dynasty were so exquisite that many countries also made them.  It is circulating as a quasi-currency, and its value is even much higher than its face value, just like the ten cents of Ying Zongjiao. In some countries, its value is almost equivalent to the purchasing power of more than forty cents. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? If the value of Jujiao continues to depreciate, Wang Ju will take Jujiao to Dashi for digestion and forcefully raise its price again.  So now that you have silk in your hand, if you immediately exchange it for copper coins at a very low price, you will definitely regret it later.  With a three-pronged approach, Silk Street finally began to recover.  The following year, the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Shaosheng.  Shao means to continue and to restore, which means to restore Zhao Xu's decree and continue it.  The country once again issued an edict to restore the Shuozheng two-tax rate, which is what some people call the Wendi tax. According to the land class, it ranges from one for ten taxes to one for thirty taxes. Of course, this is not the tax rate when it is implemented. There are also some miscellaneous taxes.  Woolen cloth.  Moreover, the official tax rate is also higher than the tax rate of Emperor Han Wen. The tax rate is one tax per fifteen to thirty tax, not one per ten tax.  However, the tax rate is much lower than the original tax rate. Even some miscellaneous taxes are explicitly banned one by one in this edict.  Soon, large-scale fleets from the other side arrived one after another.  They not only brought some commercial goods from the other side, but also brought a large amount of gold, silver, copper and iron, especially gold. The quantity of this batch of gold reached nearly four million taels.  Wang Ju started arranging this "break" a few years ago. The key to the break was the bank secretary, but he had to stand up after the break.  This was not enough to rely on the output of gold mines and trade on the other side, so he asked soldiers from the other side to attack a small country in the South China Sea and obtained a large amount of gold, silver, pearls and jade. Therefore, for two consecutive years, the other side brought huge amounts of gold and silver.  The price of silk handouts suddenly returned to the past, and many people even took out their gold and silver again and went to various banks to exchange for silk handouts.  After all, gold and silver transactions are too troublesome, and you have to pay certain handling fees to the gold cabinet.  And it was copper coins. As ships from the other side brought copper and minted copper coins one after another, its actual value also began to decline.  In fact, the Banking Department and overseas trade are the two most important treasures of the "Golden Rule" initiated by Wang Ju. With the recovery of overseas trade, the Banking Department returned to normal operation. Under their pull, the Song Dynasty economy also recovered.  But it was still far less than the glory in the following years of Yuanfeng and Shuozheng. In the autumn of this year, countless people fled to the other side, and even the fleets left. There were also a large number of people who stayed in various ports because they could not be taken away.  Zhao Xu was shocked when he heard the news and quickly asked Cai Que if the country was stable, there would not be so many people fleeing the Song Dynasty.    
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