In order to maximize the economic situation of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the changes in the concepts and social atmosphere of the Song people, the easiest thing is to change certain policies. After the key to "financial" reform was proposed, it was the easiest to be accepted by the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty. After all, the change in concept is the most difficult and time-consuming. Only by saving the country in a curve can a certain change in the overall environment, which in turn affects the changes in social concepts.

In the past, the Song Dynasty's "quasi-paper currency" issued by Jiaoduo was entirely based on its government credit in finance, which was also common in later generations, but this was not mainstream. After all, everyone who used it had to question the value of Jiaoduo. If something happened to the court, the actual value of Jiaoduo would also change to a certain extent.

Wang Jinghui only had a slight understanding of the operating principle, and it was really embarrassing him to calculate the outcome of such a development. However, no matter how much he calculated, the payment of money issued with government credit as "collateral" is too dangerous.

Not to mention those who have heard of some economic crises from a thousand years later, even some knowledgeable people in the Song Dynasty have had questions about this. There have been articles published in the journals of Huaying Academy. These have learned some original economic precious metals to issue real paper money to transform them. This is already the consensus of the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty. In addition to increasing efforts to repurchase silver and gold through the circulation field, the court has also strengthened the construction and exploration of gold and silver mines on Mayi Island, and strived to reserve more theories in a relatively short period of time. Not to mention ministers such as Wang Anshi and Sima Guang who control the development of the Song Dynasty. The situation of issuance and distribution of the court's credit must be ended as soon as possible, or the exclusive launch of gold and silver precious metals in the court as soon as possible.

Everyone understands that Wang Jinghui's so-called "aid" for the Liao Kingdom to overcome the crisis was just a cover. The real purpose was to look at the gold and silver accumulated by the Liao Palace for almost two hundred years - a country like the Liao Kingdom, which was established longer than the Song Dynasty. Its family background is definitely not only what the Song Dynasty saw now, but the Song Dynasty came to the Western Xia and found huge reserves of gold and silver in the inner treasury of its palace, let alone the Liao Kingdom. Now trapping the Liao Kingdom makes it maintain the status quo

The Song Dynasty provided a northern barrier, so it was OK to take action to destroy the Liao Kingdom, but it could not guarantee that the Liao Kingdom would not transfer these treasures together. Even if these treasures were obtained in a balanced manner, the Song Dynasty would face many nomadic tribes invasion in the future. It would be very annoying. The military expenditure of the treasury had just been reduced for a few years. The Song Dynasty court and Wang Jinghui's acquisition of gold and silver in the circulation field had caused the price of precious metals to rise. Some visionary merchants would not have discovered this.

At this time, it became a consensus that the Song Dynasty's business community was bullish on gold and silver prices. If they continued to acquire them like this, they would only increase costs and cause rampant black market transactions, and even speculation would occur. In contrast, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom resumed normal trade relations. It was strictly stipulated that the Liao Kingdom could only use precious metals for trade settlement. This has both political and economic benefits.

In June of the eighth year of Xining in the Song Dynasty, the drought in the Liao Kingdom further worsened. Grain reserves were in a frequent emergency, and grain shortages had already formed in Dading Prefecture. Grain prices changed several times in a day, causing complaints from the Liao Kingdom. At this time, the Song Dynasty sent a negotiating envoy represented by Shen Kuo to Dading Prefecture, and negotiated the main reason for restoring the vertebral trade between the Song and Liao dynasties. Although the food price in the Song Dynasty was much more expensive than usual, compared with the rising grain prices in Dading Prefecture now, it is nothing.

The only thing the Song Dynasty insisted on in trade negotiations was to settle gold or silver, and the Liao Kingdom did not raise any objections - seven or eight out of ten copper coins circulating on the Liao Kingdom market were all copper coins of the Song Dynasty. If the Liao Kingdom wanted to conduct a large amount of grain transactions with the Song Dynasty, it would cause a large amount of copper coins to flow out.

This will make the people under his rule even more complaints. The Liao Dynasty's negotiating envoy was Ma Renhua, one of the Ma brothers. At this time, he had already served as the envoy of the Three Divisions of the Liao Dynasty. He was considered a spy from the highest-ranking place in the Liao Dynasty's court. When Shen Kuo left the Song Dynasty, he went to Wang Jinghui's son-in-law's mansion to get his face-to-face advice. The Intelligence Bureau also equipped Shen Kuo with special intelligence personnel to help Shen Kuo understand the bottom line of the Liao Dynasty's ruler conveyed by Nirxin and Ma Renwang.

This conversation was simply a drama directed by the Intelligence Bureau of the Song Dynasty. However, there were major differences between the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty on the issue of pricing gold and silver. Although Ma Renhua was responsible for the trade negotiations between the Song and Liao Kingdom, he still needed to obtain the consent and recognition of the senior leaders of the Liao Kingdom on some major issues. However, he still made a lot of efforts on the pricing of precious metals, especially the increasing food shortage in the Dading Prefecture caused the Liao Kingdom to finally compromise with the Song Dynasty.

The price of gold and silver for copper coins is slightly higher than 10 to 10, and it is determined to exchange one tael of gold for twelve taels of silver for twelve taels of copper coins. The price of grain is exchanged for copper coins into gold and silver, reaching one tael of one tael of five coins for silver. This price is equal to three times the price of rice in Biandu. Excluding freight, the Song Dynasty will earn about 500 coins of copper coins per stone of rice.

Such pricing was recognized by the Song and Liao Shuang. The grain transport fleet that had been prepared for a long time at the Dengzhou port was immediately transported to the Laizhou Port of the Song Dynasty and the Jinzhou Port of the Liao Kingdom after receiving the order. Through this operation of transporting grain to the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom also saw how amazing the sea transport capacity of the Song Dynasty was. At the same time, it also explained how the Song army that appeared in Laizhou and Jinzhou in the Song-Liao War was able to reach its destination without disturbing the Yanyun defenders.

When Ma Renhua persuaded the senior leaders of the Liao Kingdom to purchase large amounts of grain from the Song Dynasty to increase the pressure on the inland river transportation of the Song Dynasty to achieve the goal of damaging the interests of the Song Dynasty. However, the senior leaders of the Liao Kingdom never thought that the Song Dynasty's shipping capacity was so strong, and this shock to the "elite" class of the Liao Kingdom was difficult to add.

With such maritime transportation capabilities in the Song Dynasty, it can completely get rid of its dependence on inland river transportation. What's more serious is that such maritime transportation capabilities in the Song Dynasty will pose a huge threat to any city near the sea in the Liao Kingdom, because the Song Dynasty's army has confirmed that it has been shown to them.

However, even though the Khitans realized the threat from the sea, they were helpless. After all, the poor navy of the Liao Kingdom could not get out of the sea at all. It was okay to be a pirate in the past. However, the losses suffered by the "bandit suppression" of the Song Dynasty's naval army over the past ten years were exhausted and they could not bear the security of their own coastline.

During the Song-Liao War, the only small boats of the Liao navy were destroyed by the Song army's navy at the first time. Now the Liao country is willing to rebuild the navy. Moreover, the Song Dynasty would not be indifferent to this. If it was found that the Liao country was establishing a navy, it would come to cause trouble immediately. After the Song-Liao War, the Khitans opened their eyes for the first time to see their opponents carefully.

But now the Great Song Dynasty has surpassed the Liao Kingdom. As a pair of old rivals who have been filthy for a hundred years, the Great Song Dynasty has become difficult to understand. After the war, although the Khitans signed a series of humiliating peace treaties, a small number of Khitan scholars still came to the Great Song Dynasty through official channels. They hope to study in first-class academies such as Huaying Academy. However, this behavior was under pressure from Wang Jinghui.

At least Huaying Academy would never allow any Khitans to enter. He influenced the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty to make a decision on this issue. He only allowed these Khitan scholars to study in the Fanxue Pavilion opened for the vassal states near Biandu.

In Wang Jinghui's eyes, these Khitans are really worthy of admiration, but as the hostile side, he cannot give his opponent any chance to turn around. These Khitan scholars are at the highest level and even the younger brother of the late Queen Xiao of the Liao Kingdom. This also shows the most basic political tone of this group of scholars - they are "international students" sent by the Liao Kingdom's descendants, and of course, there are also several of them who are Khitan students with little background.

Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie influenced the Liao regime. Wang Jinghui believed that this situation would not last long, so the relationship between the Ma brothers of Dading Prefecture and them was also a process of slowly alienating, especially as Ma Renhua, as the Sansi envoy, drew a clear line with Yelu Yixin.

In government affairs, he was more inclined to the post-clan tribe, and used his power to promote some people from the post-clan background to the court. In this way, Ma Renhua became a banner in the court against Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie.

However, what outsiders can't understand is that Ma Renwang is very close to Yelu Yixin. The differences between the two brothers made everyone a little puzzled, but they did not expect that the Ma brothers were actually senior spies in the Song Dynasty. This was just a play directed by the Intelligence Bureau of the Song Dynasty.

The "Liao Kingdom Overseas Students" incident made Wang Jinghui feel alert again. This is not only targeting the Khitans. In fact, Wang Jinghui is most concerned about "International Students". Of course, international students from Japan are worthy of his attention. With Wang Jinghui's intervention, all foreign students studying in the Song Dynasty were divided into different levels and studied in different academic museums, and the content they learned was also different.

The Scholars of the Song Dynasty are strictly prohibited from offering science and technology courses. They only teach Confucian classics mainly based on the Four Books and Five Classics. The Imperial City Department has also strengthened the monitoring of foreign students. According to the rules and regulations of the Scholars, any foreign student studying in the Scholars must ask for leave in advance if they want to leave the Scholars and enter Biandu. If they want to go to high-level academies such as Yinghua Academy, the Scholars will be arranged uniformly by the Scholars, and the target college must also send special reception staff. These measures are also to prevent foreigners from secretly learning advanced technologies from the Song Dynasty and to strictly block the outside world. This is also to ensure the leading scientific and technological aspects of the Song Dynasty.

As early as many years ago, after the overseas trade of the Song Dynasty began to flourish, Wang Jinghui wrote a letter to the Song Dynasty court to request that the local maritime departments under the jurisdiction of the court strictly prohibit various sensitive equipment and equipment in the delivery of goods abroad, and only export finished goods. Once a merchant is found to violate the rules, he will be punished with a very heavy fine and deprived of any medals and other honors given by the court. In addition, officials who are officials in the family will be implicated, and various punishment measures are not bad.

Wang Jinghui advocated spreading the culture of the Song Dynasty to the distance to expand the influence of the Song Dynasty in this world, but he controlled science and technology very strictly. In addition to the official punishment of illegal merchants, Wang Jinghui also used his position in the business circle of the Song Dynasty to further punish these illegal merchants. Basically, after these punishments, the discovered merchants no longer have any future in business, which also made the Song Dynasty merchants feel Wang Jinghui's other side.

Wang Jinghui once used his power to rush into five or six textile and printing merchants to go bankrupt, which greatly shocked the merchants of the Song Dynasty. However, because Xiao Wang's prince consort has a unique voice in these fields, many merchants were able to make a fortune by relying on him. Of course, he remembered such examples and did not dare to disobey them.

Almost every year, Wang Jinghui would write to the court to continue to strengthen the export of science and technology from local maritime departments. Moreover, the Imperial City Department also secretly learned the technology of the Song Dynasty under the pressure of the court, and some of the technicians from their own country went to other places to control it very strictly. This made the Song Dynasty's lead movable type printing machines, water conservancy and textile machines, hydraulic oil pressing technology, etc. strictly controlled the Song Dynasty's lead. However, even so, through the report of the Imperial City Department, the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty's rule still learned that the Khitan, Goryeo and other countries were salivating about the Song Dynasty's gunpowder, textile, oil pressing, printing, shipbuilding and other technologies.

He tried every means to understand the content of these technologies. Especially Goryeo bought officials in these technologies. However, Wang Jinghui was powerful in the local maritime departments, so he intercepted all these technologies in the Song Dynasty at the last juncture. That's it. Wang Jinghui still instructed the Imperial City Department to assassinate some foreigners through the Intelligence Bureau. The methods were becoming more and more intense. Later experiences made Wang Jinghui not give anyone a chance.

Only by leading technology can we ensure the absolute advantage of the Song Dynasty's trade. The Song Dynasty's strength at sea has made the surrounding countries that are aspiring to this end breathless. Although these countries have made various demands to the Song Dynasty, hoping that the Song Dynasty could open up its maritime navigation, the top leaders of the Song Dynasty who had already benefited deeply could be moved by these small profits, let alone Wang Jinghui was "eying" on the side.

"The sea will be the future of the Song Dynasty. Only by ensuring that the Song Dynasty's interests are not violated, provoked, or threatened, can the Song Dynasty's merchant fleet be unobstructed at sea. The place on these fleets is not just simple cargo, they are related to the source of life of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in the Song Dynasty - if all this is lost, it will be a disaster for the Song Dynasty, and the impact will not be greater than that of the Yellow River, and the whole country will suffer from droughts and locust plagues. Millions of people in the Song Dynasty will lose the foundation of their lives, just like farmers lose their land after the disaster, and rebellions will break out in various places, which is absolutely not allowed for the Song Dynasty!..."

This is a memorial about the importance of the ocean to the Song Dynasty presented to the court in August of the eighth year of Xining. When I saw this memorial, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty were extremely shocked. This was not the period of Renzong more than ten years ago. The Song Dynasty's dependence on the sea was not so strong. However, the great development of overseas trade in just over ten years has prompted the Song Dynasty to become increasingly inseparable from the ocean.

As this memorial says, in the Song Dynasty, especially in several important cities in the south, the population was as large as millions. Most of these cities were employed in major workshops, and the money they earned was used to buy food to support their lives. Second, the reason why these workshops were maintained and developed was inseparable from marine trade. Basically, 50% or 60% of the goods produced by these workshops were specially prepared for marine trade. If the Song Dynasty suddenly interrupted overseas trade, most of the workshops in these coastal cities would be greatly affected, and large-scale bankruptcy was inevitable. The people who lost their workshops were no less than farmers who lost their land. If there was no way out, they would rebel!

"Imported goods from Goryeo and other countries will drop a little every year. Although they will not completely not import the goods from the Song Dynasty in the end, it is certain that the number of imported goods will decrease over time. Even if the Song Dynasty can ensure the safety of the sea, the export volume will not increase. What should we do?!" Emperor Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang and other ministers discussed this memorial for a whole day, and then summoned Wang Jinghui back to Funing Hall to raise questions about the memorial in order to find a solution.
Chapter completed!