Lu Han snorted softly: "He is a smart man, you don't want to let him go!"
"Hey, smart people are everywhere..."
"But there are not many smart people like him! This is the only smart person who can concentrate on solving problems with money!"
The smile on Guo Ning's face gradually disappeared, and he sighed: "Ahan, you can see it. This person is obsessed with money, which is rare."
Guo Ning fell into deep thought. Lu Han took his hand and asked him to step back and sit on the couch. There was a ready-made felt blanket in the corner of the couch. Lu Han opened it and spread it half on Guo Ning's legs and half on his own legs. Then he leaned on Guo Ning's shoulders and looked up at Guo Ning's rough and dark skin. face.
When she was a child, she often saw Guo Ning's angry look, and the same was true when she was a teenager; now that she is twenty years old, Guo Ning beside her has changed from a playmate to a husband. Guo Ning still has the same stubborn and fierce temper, but there are many differences. For example, he spends more and more time thinking, and his temper is getting deeper and deeper.
Lu Han has always been by Guo Ning's side, but he doesn't understand where Guo Ning's change came from. But one thing she always firmly believes is that Guo Ning's thoughts and actions are all to take care of the people around him, and even carry the people around him forward. It's just that as his status gets higher and his power grows, he wants to take care of more and more people.
The two of them just sat quietly. Lu Han was tired from taking care of the child and was snoring slightly. Guo Ning was still thinking.
Guo Ning was furious when the navy leader made a rebellion before, so he ordered the arrest of Jia She who was responsible for the incident. It was necessary to find out the person behind the instigation and take revenge.
The people who gave the order were Ying Chunzhi of Chuzhou and Li Jue of Yangzhou, and Li Yun was left to deal with it. As long as they could return to Lin'an with one breath, Li Yun's job as a minister would be in vain.
After Jia She came to Zhongdu, Guo Ning discovered that Jia She himself was the biggest gain of Li Yun's trip.
He originally thought that Jia She was a man of outstanding talent and greed for money. In the eyes of northerners, most officials in the Southern Dynasties were like this.
But in fact, this person is really not the usual corrupt official who only knows how to seek personal gain.
Everything he thinks and even does is inseparable from money, because he truly believes that money is the key to influencing military and political affairs, and money can be used to solve all problems. Even between the Song and Jin countries, if trade was smooth, everyone would make money, and there would be less possibility of conflict.
Previously, he served in Gaoyou, Xuyi and other places, and he was very keen on promoting border trade and connecting various merchants openly and covertly. In Baoying County, they are busy every day opening and closing the canal trade road to guide people. In the process, he seemed to be making a lot of money, but in fact this was just a side benefit.
His idea did not change even after he arrived at Tianjin Mansion and saw Guo Ning training navy officers with great enthusiasm. Instead, he plucked up the courage and prepared to use money to solve the problem.
Everyone knew that Guo Ning was a rough man and a reckless hero who came to power by force. However, Jia She talked about his mining and coinage business in front of Guo Ning, and wanted to rely on a secret transaction of 600,000 copper coins to establish a relationship between the two countries. Form some kind of tacit understanding.
This is not some kind of rhetoric... Guo Ning confirmed again and again that Jia She was serious.
No one else would be able to say this to Guo Ning. Because this kind of approach is equivalent to bribery in the face of a powerful and vigorous regime, and the price of bribery does not seem high. It is very likely that as soon as they open their mouths, they will be dragged out and slaughtered by the angry Guo Ning.
Fortunately, although Guo Ning came from a rude background, his thoughts did not stop at the rash level.
Since he started his army, he has always relied on the two-level system of military households and shadow households in military and local management. This system will create a large number of grassroots military aristocrats, just like the good family members of the Han Dynasty and the imperial soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. If the standards are loosened, it will actually be different from the Jurchens' Meng'an conspiracy and the Mongolians' thousands of households with hundreds of people. The household system also has something in common.
If the memory fragments in Guo Ning's mind are correct, the unified dynasties that followed the Song and Yuan Dynasties were called the Ming and the Qing, and their routines for building up their military force were still the same.
This kind of grassroots military aristocrats can guarantee the necessary equipment and training level based on their own economic conditions alone, and in turn can guarantee the lower limit of the army's combat effectiveness for a considerable period of time.
The military directly controls a considerable amount of land output, and eliminates the exploitation and suppression of the bureaucratic system. Perseverance comes from perseverance. It protects the economic and political status of soldiers, which also guarantees their will to fight.
When Guo Ning gathered hundreds of soldiers in Hebei and defeated them, he made a promise to his subordinates and made a plan to occupy Shandong, gradually allocate acres of land, and establish military households. That's why Yelu Chucai fell in love with Guo Ning at first sight. Thinking that Guo Ning's chest was like a gift from heaven, he followed him from then on.
This system is indeed the only way to conquer the world throughout the ages, and it is also the art of slaying dragons that only extraordinary people can understand and implement.
When the Jin Kingdom was in decay and the Mongolian army had just stepped out of the grasslands and had not yet reached a very high level, such an army, coupled with a brave enough backbone, was enough to run rampant in the world.
Guo Ning had calculated that since the Mongolian army was already heading west, it was just the window period for his own expansion. With the hundreds of thousands of troops at hand, he overthrew half of the Jin Dynasty in one go, then drank the Yangtze River and captured the Song Dynasty. Finally, he turned around and continued to deal with Mongolia in the north. At most, he brought along the Xia Kingdom in the west.
This is very possible. The more experienced warriors are, the more they can understand what hundreds of thousands of well-trained troops represent. The Jin Army or Song Army at the same time can only be regarded as organized armed peasants in front of them. Guo Ning led his subordinates many times Winning more with less is actually not particularly difficult.
According to historical records, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty commanded the troops of the Later Zhou Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty in the north as an inspector in front of the palace. After Huangpao was added to his body, this gentleman also followed the same approach of going south first and then north.
Guo Ning felt that he was still very young and would be energetic enough to turn north after he had conquered the world. It would not be like the Southern Dynasties where an incompetent emperor came to power and would only race on the Gaoliang River.
Four years ago, when he woke up from the sewage ice in Tangluo, Hebei Province, he was determined to curb the momentum of the rise of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and reestablish the order of the Han family. Today, he is becoming more and more confident in achieving this goal, and to some extent, he is already halfway there.
Next, as long as we follow the steps and defeat the enemies that must be defeated, we can establish a unified new dynasty, a centralized, stable, and restrained dynasty.
This is what Yelu Chucai or Xu Ding and others want to see. The prosperous age they can imagine is nothing more than this. This new dynasty relied on countless scholars who were excellent at officialdom, countless nobles who occupied land and resources, and ruled countless peasants who had nothing to do. It continued according to its own laws, and then decayed and declined.
Then, a new dynasty was established.
For thousands of years, powerful dynasties have risen like this. Thousands of years later, dynasties are still rising like this. The routines for success and failure are the same.
They rise and fall; their armies begin strong, then decay and are destroyed; their rise and fall seem to be reincarnations over and over again. For thousands of years, this land has been a leader in the world in terms of dense population, developed economy, and prosperous culture. But they go through it too many times and actually waste a lot of time.
Guo Ning didn't think he had the vision to understand the reason for this.
However, now that we have reached this level, is it okay to do a little more and try to see if there is any other way?
Previously, Guo Ning repeatedly promoted the idea of "gathering grain widely and building walls high". The core of it is that even if the military is strong, don't rush to conquer land in the east and west to expand.
Ding Haijun's strength lies in the stability of its fundamentals and the support of huge benefits obtained through trade. So, from the standpoint of Ding Haijun, what is needed now is to operate patiently and continuously expand the benefits brought by the new regime to the military and civilians under its rule, thereby ensuring continued stability and prosperity in the area under its control.
This situation will continue for three to five years. As maritime commerce continues to grow, industry and commerce throughout the north will gradually recover. By using this to attract many upstarts in the Dinghai navy, they can accumulate wealth faster and more than through simple agricultural operations. Perhaps, this can give birth to some new fundamentals, thereby making Guo Ning's regime different from many dynasties in the past?
As for the unification itself, all we have to do is wait and see. In this process, financial resources and force are both tools, and there is no distinction between them. The so-called financial resources include all kinds of materials needed by the military and the country, and are not limited to copper coins.
Guo Ning made up his mind.
He carefully lifted off the felt blanket, slowly opened the door and walked out.
Ni Yi was chatting quietly with a few companions at the courtyard gate. When he saw Guo Ning coming out, he immediately saluted respectfully.
"Go and call Jia She."
"yes."
Jia She arrived in a moment. He was probably talking too excitedly. He obviously hadn't slept or changed his clothes. As a result, his robes were wrinkled as he rolled around on the bed, making them particularly conspicuous under the late night light.
"Meet Duke Zhou." Jia She bowed politely.
I've thought about it. The suggestion you just made is very good. It would be a pity if we only regard it as a bribe for a year or two. "
Guo Ning asked with a smile: "Besides, how can you guarantee that you can convince Shi Miyuan? If you went to Lin'an and worked in vain, wouldn't my 600,000 yuan fly away out of thin air? That would be heartbreaking. tight."
Jia She replied softly: "Prime Minister Shi wants to maintain stability in his political affairs, and must take precautions. This suggestion of mine can best ensure the stability of the court; and if Prime Minister Shi changes his mind, he will have people and money on hand who can be used, so, It won’t be impossible, so Duke Zhou can rest assured.”
"I really can't let go, so I just thought of a way."
"This..." Jia She asked: "What method? Duke Zhou, the situation between the north and the south is generally stable now. No matter what method we use, we must not..."
Guo Ning didn't listen to his words at all. Instead, he took out a thin book from his sleeve and threw it into Jia She's arms.
"Show this kind of thing to Shi Miyuan after you arrive in Lin'an. He said, I am assisting Emperor Zuo Jin in Zhongdu, and I spend a lot of money every day. I think when Xianggong Shi is regent in Lin'an, there is plenty of money to spend. That being the case, I don't get the 600,000 yuan from him in vain every year. They might as well be counted as share capital and run the business together. If Shi Xiang is interested, he can privately send capable people to come to Tianjin Mansion to interview me, or I can send someone to , it’s okay.”
Jia She opened the book and glanced twice, then raised his head: "Is this a trading company? Such a large-scale trading company?"
