Chapter 578: Power of capital

"It's not that the secret guards are powerful, but that Wei Wang is too stupid. He only knows how to protect the interests of the rich, but forgets that there are more ordinary people in this world than the rich."
Sitting in the palace, Li San took a sip of tea.
These days, he was really exhausted. According to Xiao Ming's request, they organized complaints in the village, let the people who were oppressed by the tyrants come to the stage to complain, and then ended by scolding Wei Wang and the tyrants.
In addition to complaints, there are slogans in each village. The content of this slogan is naturally to support King Qi and eliminate the words of King Wei.
At the same time, they are also cooperating with the government to establish a local militia organization to unite the people.
Of course, no matter how much it is said, there is no practical action. The distribution of land to the people is the key to truly let the people lay down their guard.
With the addition of all these methods, the four states have finally become popular among the people, and there are many young and middle-aged people who are actively participating in the army.
Ye Qingyun smiled. The group of secret guards has always been very mysterious, and he has a kind of fear in Li San, because he feels that these people must also be stared at by Li San.
After hesitating, he asked: "Where are you going next?"
"Jinling City!" Li San didn't evade, he said, "Catch the thieves first. If you can assassinate King Wei, it will be easier to attack the city, isn't it?"
"Assassination!" Ye Qingyun was taken aback, "You tell me about this, aren't you afraid of leaking it out?"
"If the governor leaked out, I will know the first time." Li San seemed to smile.
Ye Qingyun hit a violent spirit all over his body, which further confirmed his guess. At this time, he became more and more in awe of Xiao Ming, because in his opinion, King Qi was really elusive.
How did he establish a secret guard?
But this is not what he should think about. After chatting with Li San for a while, he went out of the government to recruit new recruits.
Yangzhou City is a big city with a population of 600,000, because they arrived in time. After the massacre, there were still more than 400,000 people left in the city. Adding the population of the nearby states and counties, the population of Yangzhou City is considerable, basically Around seven hundred thousand.
The recruitment of such a surplus population is naturally not a problem, and now Qingzhou has come to order him to recruit 30,000 recruits from Yangzhou and Tongzhou. After half a year, he needs to lead the army to cooperate with the Southern Expedition to completely take the Wei Land.
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Qingzhou.
In the fiery propaganda of the four states, war bonds began to be issued in the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce. In conjunction with the issuance of war bonds, Qingzhou Daily gave a comprehensive explanation of what war bonds are.
When the people and merchants learned that the war bond was issued by Xiao Ming, the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce was blocked by the people.
Taking food and money, the people exchanged for war bonds in the Chamber of Commerce to support the war.
Compared with the common people, merchants are more interested in war bonds. They have spent money to buy them. At the same time, the rich and powerful who came to Qingzhou from Chang'an did not miss this opportunity.
With their own property, they replaced the gold and silver objects with a few chapters of thin paper, which were the bonds issued by the Chamber of Commerce.
Such a hot scene Xiao Ming was unexpected, but the people and merchants were so active, which is enough to explain his current position in the hearts of the people. As for the merchants who tasted the sweetness after the Northern Expedition, they naturally did not want to miss the opportunity.
The only thing that made them regret was that Xiao Ming set a limit this time, and they were not able to buy more than ten thousand taels of war bonds.
The Chamber of Commerce was overwhelmed, and Xiao Ming's palace was full of traffic. After the issuance of the war bond, Cao Zhengyang and many other giants came to the palace to discuss the war bond.
"His Royal Highness, there was no limit set by His Royal Highness during the Northern Expedition. Why did you set a limit this time? And the ten thousand taels are really less." Cao Zhengyang said.
Ding Wu also echoed: "His Royal Highness, please believe in our loyalty to the country. We hope that His Royal Highness can win consecutive battles and expand our territory."
"Yes, Your Highness, we are all from Qingzhou now, we have no ambitions."
"..."
The merchants babbled, and there was a lot of noise in the main hall.
Xiao Ming sat in the main seat and did not make any expressions. Instead, he drank tea and listened to the complaints of these merchants. After everyone had finished speaking, he said: "Everyone, the limit is not because this king does not trust you, but this time. The amount of war bonds issued is limited, so you can't get all of them."
After a pause, Xiao Ming said, "Moreover, this war bond king doesn't need too much silver and silver bills. This is of little use to this king. Do you understand now?"
Cao Zhengyang, Ding Wu and others looked at each other, and they immediately understood that this time the people were holding grain, cloth and other materials in exchange for bonds. After all, the people didn't like silver and liked to exchange silver for supplies.
But these merchants had a lot of money in their hands, and the fifty thousand taels of bonds were purchased in the form of silver and bank notes.
"His Royal Highness means that as long as you exchange materials, you don't need to care about this restriction?" Cao Zhengyang asked tentatively.
"Of course not. This king can consider raising the upper limit to 300,000 taels." Xiao Ming smiled. The restriction this time is actually a trap, in order to let the merchants find ways to obtain various materials from outside the sealed country.
His power alone is limited, but the combined energy of so many merchants in Qingzhou is huge. After all, they are related to other places. If they act, it will save him a lot of trouble.
"Three hundred thousand taels." Ding Wu repeated. This limit is acceptable. He asked, "What supplies does Your Highness need?"
"Iron ore, saltpeter, sulphur, cloth, horses." Xiao Ming said, these things are all he is short of. After the expansion of the army, he needs more steel, gunpowder, military uniforms, and horses.
Cao Zhengyang frowned when he heard the words~EbookFREE.me~ Your Royal Highness, these materials are now in short supply and are hard to find. "
"If it is easy to do, why should this king tell you about this? But the iron ore king can give you a reminder that there are many closed subway mines in Yongwang, and you can go there to buy mines." Xiao Ming Said that he must now mobilize the power of capital to reserve supplies for the war.
A group of businessmen look at me and I look at you, but in the end they can't help the temptation when they think of a generous return, and they all agree to this.
"His Royal Highness, if this is the case, we will prepare these supplies for His Highness. There are 20,000 war horses on the grass field of Caomin, 15 war horses, exactly 300,000 war horses." Cao Zhengyang glanced at the others triumphantly.
"Twenty thousand war horses!" Xiao Ming was also shocked. Cao Zhengyang only took over this pasture for a year.
However, after a little thought, he understood that Cao Zhengyang must have done some smuggling business from the grassland, otherwise there would be so many horses.
It's just that he doesn't bother to care about it now. Sometimes capital and politics are contradictory. While being on guard for each other, they need each other.