The Qingzhou camp was crowded with people.

At this time, Xiao Ming, Fiji and others stood in the military camp and looked at them all with smiles.

Pang Yukun said: "Congratulations to Your Highness, I didn't expect that the atrocities of the King of Wei helped Your Highness gather the hearts of the people. Now the country is united from top to bottom."

"This is indeed a bit surprising, and it is not difficult to explain. Nowadays, the people do not want to return to the time when they are bullied by the rich people." Xiao Ming said in a deep thought.

Fiji and Pang Yukun nodded, and Fiji said, "But although the people are angry, we cannot recruit so many soldiers. The finances of the country's famine cannot afford it. Soldiers are more expensive than essence."

Although Xiao Ming ordered the expansion of the army this time, there were quite a few more people coming to sign up for the army this time, but it can be seen that the country and ethnic education of the people have begun to show results during this period.

What is the numbness between the country and me? No matter how numb the country is, I can no longer influence the people's thoughts.

"Yes, Yangzhou was massacred this time, and our idea of ​​obtaining a large amount of supplies from Yangzhou City failed. Even the troops recruited now are probably going to be tight." Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun and Fiji looked at each other and sighed and replied.

Xiao Ming felt anger. King Wei's scorched earth policy this time turned the original war dividend into negative assets. Now he has to find a way to reverse the situation.

Thinking of this, he said to the two: "I have an idea, the treasury is money and grain, but the merchants and people in Qingzhou have it. I am going to issue war bonds. As long as those who buy war bonds can get dividends from the trophy in the future, what do you think?"

"War Bond?" Both Fiji and Pang Yukun were stunned.

Xiao Ming came to his senses and remembered that the two of them had no idea what war bonds were, so he explained.

In fact, his war bonds are just equivalent to national debts. It is only because it is a war period and the war has won consecutive victories and the people are very confident that he decided to issue war bonds.

Similar to national debt, the purpose of war bonds is to raise materials in advance. The strategic goal set below is half a year later, so he will raise war materials in this half year.

In fact, he had already done this kind of thing. This was during the Northern Expedition, but at that time, only a few big merchants benefited from it. Now these merchants almost monopolized the pastures of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Out of vigilance against monopoly capital, Xiao Ming did not recruit merchants this time, but decided to issue it in the entire ban country, so that even if the people were given food, they could receive war bonds.

In this way, he could prevent his fence from being influenced by war capital. After all, he did not want to be controlled by the fanatical war capital by taking history as a lesson.

After explaining it, Fiji and Pang Yukun understood that this war bond was just equivalent to borrowing money from merchants and the people to fight. When there was a war bonus, they would return the dividends to the people and pay additional interest.

Pang Yukun was immediately amazed, and Fiji shook his head repeatedly. He didn't know what Xiao Ming thought of this wonderful method.

If the normal system of the Great Yu Kingdom is followed, the method of the treasury without money is very simple, and it is to impose heavy taxes.

Now Xiao Ming did not consider this option at all, but directly adopted this gentle method.

"Do you understand now?" Xiao Ming asked.

"I understand. After I go back, the officials will ask the Chamber of Commerce to hang out the war bonds for sale." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "But you have to control it and limit the purchase quantity to prevent a very small number of merchants from making huge profits."

Now Xiao Ming is no longer worried about unifying the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but with the reform of the feudal state, social change may lead to an uncontrollable stage.

As the wisdom of the people blooms, various advanced ideas will be mastered by the people. What he is most worried about is that public opinion will be used by those who are interested, which will lead to the separation of the country due to ideas.

The person who is most likely to use public opinion is the big capitalist. Now Qingzhou is just staying in the early stage of capital. Once it unifies the Great Chongqing Kingdom and enters the ocean, capital will inevitably grow rapidly like a wild horse that has broken its reins. How should he tame this beast?

After all, in this era of news that is closed and backward and barbaric, it is not as easy to maintain stability as modern times.

After talking about this, Xiao Ming remembered that Princess Pingyang entered the mansion yesterday and talked about the royal family. He was with Concubine Zhen at that time. Princess Pingyang brought up the matter after giving Fei Yue'er and Concubine Zhen.

So he asked, "What do you think of the royal family in Qingzhou this time? Now they want to ask for money at all."

When Fiji heard this, he immediately looked at his nose and his heart, pretending to be confused. He was an old fox and he was unwilling to offend these people.

Pang Yukun said seriously: "Your Highness, you must not feed these royal relatives for nothing. Since Emperor Gaozu, the number of royal relatives in this Dayu Kingdom has reached more than 100,000. The entrustment of these more than 100,000 people has become a heavy burden on the national treasury. If Your Highness wants to raise these people, the ban on the country will be dragged down soon."

Xiao Ming deeply agreed, which reminded him of the incident in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, these royal relatives were also a heavy burden to the court, but the Ming Dynasty would rather support them than let these people support themselves.

"Shu Fei, what do you think?" Xiao Ming looked at Fiji. He didn't believe these Dukes of Tang, and Duke Rong had never looked for Fiji.

Compared with Xiao Ming, these people have more familiarity with Fiji, Luo Quan and others.

"Your Highness, there are not many royal relatives in Qingzhou City now. In fact, there are only more than one thousand people. The others are distributed in various parts of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but these thousand people are all people with relatively high titles." Fiji said.

In fact, Xiao Ming was trying to force Fiji to express his thoughts, but now it seems that Fiji agrees with supporting these people.

"Old Feige, you know how much money the treasury is now. Are you causing trouble?" Pang Yukun naturally heard the implicit sound of Fiji.

Fiji was calm as usual. He sighed and said, "Don't be anxious when Master Pang said this. Of course, I have the truth that I said this. These people cannot let them starve to death on the streets. After all, they fled thousands of miles to Qingzhou and were unfamiliar with their lives. To say a common saying, these people are relatives of His Highness. Even if His Highness does not pay for money to support them, they must find a way out. Moreover, the officials do this to make your Highness successfully ascend the throne in the future. After all, these people will need to preside over the ancestral temple when worshiping the ancestral temple. At this time, they will be more important. Moreover, with the support of these people, the throne of His Highness can be more stable."
Chapter completed!