Winter of the Sixth Year of Baijia
Taiping Road officially issued the sixth phase of Taiping County Development Bonds. This time, it directly issued 200 billion, with a five-year term, and the interest was only one point.
One point of interest is payable after five years. Under normal circumstances, no one would buy this kind of bond. It's really a scam. Just lending money at a high interest rate and returning home nine times is considered a conscience. When an unscrupulous loan shark makes money, they will simply compound the interest and try every means to make you pay back. In the end, you will lose all your wealth until you sell yourself into slavery.
But these 500 billion bonds were very popular and were sold out quickly.
It is said that some people even came to the door and expressed their willingness to pay a high price, willing to pay twice the price to directly buy 10 billion bonds.
He was given 20 billion copper coins or 2 million taels of gold sand just to purchase 10 billion Taiping Tao Development Bonds, but was rejected by the Taiping Tao people.
This time, Sun En, who was in charge of bond sales, had an idea and directly raised the shipping price on the bond exchange: a bond with a face value of 10,000 taels, five-year term, one point interest, and an initial selling price of 20,000 yuan.
In other words, if Taipingdao successfully repays the money after five years, those who bought the bonds will lose money. If you buy it, you will lose money. The more you buy, the more you will lose!
But even so, the initial selling price of 20,000 yuan still quickly sold out 100 billion bonds.
For the remaining 100 billion bonds, Sun En raised the price again, directly mentioning 30,000 yuan, but it was still sold out quickly.
It was originally planned to raise 200 billion, but now it has directly raised 500 billion.
"Hehe, now that we have these 500 billion, can't we just repay the money directly?"
"Wouldn't it be nice if we left 200 billion to pay back next year?"
Looking at the elated second and third brothers, Taiping Taoist sighed and said: "You guys are thinking too much. I think there may be wealthy businessmen heading to the other side at this moment."
"Our battle is no longer pure. It is no longer a simple dispute between Taiping Road and Hanoi County. There is a group of wealthy businessmen behind it, trying to control everything and influence the war."
At this point, Taiping Taoist took out a copy of the Yancheng Bond Trading News: "Look at Lu's words, how touching and touching."
"Acquire all the Taiping County Development Bonds for one thousand yuan, and then sell them for one hundred thousand yuan. One in and one out will be a profit of 990 billion. This profit of nearly one trillion yuan seems to be It’s the same as before, as if you only need to buy low and sell high to earn a trillion!”
Having said this, Taiping Taoist shook his head: "This is the first time, so not many people have thought of this, but what about next year? What about the year after that?"
"Even, what about the wars between other counties?"
"At that time, will someone artificially trigger a war in order to control bond prices? Artificially create some true and false news, thereby triggering bond price turmoil? After the bond price turmoil, those who have been prepared can Start buying low and selling high.”
"You said, which one is more popular than making money honestly, waiting until the bond matures to pay money, or directly using various means to manipulate bond price fluctuations and then harvest?"
Hearing this, even Sun En, who had been laughing all the time, couldn't stop laughing.
Would those nobles do this?
Based on Sun En's understanding of the nobles, they would definitely do this!
Even if some nobles do not do so due to personal ethics, other nobles will rush to do so.
How can we honestly develop and govern a county without being prepared in advance or even launching a war to cause fluctuations in bond prices?
When the bond matures, how much is the interest?
If bond prices fluctuate, if you take advantage of it, you can earn tens of billions or hundreds of billions!
At this moment, Taiping Taoists felt that a new era was coming. In the eyes of Taiping Taoists, the bond exchange is like a newborn monster that has grown to the point where it is finally beginning to eat people.
The Taiping Taoist was still sighing, but Gongzisi's mood at the moment was very complicated, and it was difficult to describe: "I originally wanted to drag Taiping Dao to death, but this time it's okay. Taiping Dao can easily raise 500 billion yuan, and I can just take out 1,000 yuan." With 100 billion yuan, we can guarantee the livelihood of the people under our rule. With another 100 billion yuan, we can continue to expand into the forest and purchase a large number of slaves. These slaves will, in a few years, be transformed into Taipingdao slaves. population."
"The remaining 300 billion can all be used to fight the war. If we continue to drag it out, we will be the first to be dragged to death, right?"
Having said this, before his confidants and others could answer, Young Master Si began to ask and answer his own questions: "In Hanoi County, the annual output of fields plus the output of various industries has exceeded 100 billion, gentlemen and No matter how hard you work, it will not be difficult to reach 150 billion, but it will start to become difficult after 200 billion."
"However, considering the impact of the war, it would be thankful to be able to maintain 100 billion."
"In the past, if we developed normally, we could repay the 100 billion development bonds. But now, not only are we unable to repay the bonds, but the development speed has also been affected. If this continues, the only people who will be dragged to death are we."
Although these words are a bit depressing, there are only a handful of confidant people present, and they can also tell a little truth.
Having said this, Young Master Si closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again after a while, he became extremely tenacious and his mental state immediately changed: "Please teach me!"
Li Kui first said: "The core of our reform in Hanoi County is actually to attack the traditional aristocracy of Shiqing Shilu, and at the same time reward meritorious service, promote a group of capable and loyal small and medium-sized nobles, and at the same time complete the concentration of power."
"Such a reform is destined to make it impossible for us to directly take out the exercises and exchange them for money like Taiping County. Once the exercises can be directly exchanged for money, military merit will no longer be unique and sacred."
In the past, in Hanoi County, only by obtaining military merit could one obtain rewards such as martial arts, official positions, and titles. At that time, in order to climb up or obtain skills, the common people and geniuses at the bottom would fight desperately and fight for Hanoi County.
Use interests to shape people's hearts, and then create Hanoi County's own interest groups and even the basis for rule.
At this time, if Hanoi County follows the example of Taiping Dao and does not pay back the money but exchanges the exercises for money, then the people of Hanoi County will be shaken: the skills that can only be obtained after hard work on the battlefield and through life and death, but now there are just a few Bad money is enough, so why are everyone working so hard? Isn’t it enough to just work hard to make money?
If you fail to make money, at least you will still survive.
If you fail on the battlefield, your life will be lost.
This is just like the Han Dynasty in Jiang Hua's previous life, when he issued a decree to donate food in exchange for a title.
As soon as this decree came out, many big businessmen donated some food and immediately got titles. In the past, these titles were precious titles that required soldiers to work hard and not necessarily be able to obtain them.
It can only be said that the kings of the Han Dynasty spent a lot of effort to completely abolish the idea of military merit.
"In order to maintain the enthusiasm of the bottom, we can't directly use exercises and blood to repay the money. Once we do that, the way to climb up will change from military merit to military merit plus making money. road.”
Some things can be done, but they cannot be said openly.
The purpose of making a breakthrough is to make the whole society have only military merit as a way to make progress, and other ways to make progress can only be accidental, cannot be large-scale, and cannot form a regular path. Otherwise, military men will have a choice. With choices, there is no need to work as hard as in the past. Even if we continue to fight hard, our determination to fight will be slightly weaker than before.
Pang Juan also nodded: "Indeed, if you can buy skills and blood essence with money, then our Xuan-level Taoist soldiers in Hanoi County will be reduced by half! In the future, the difficulty of training Xuan-level Taoist soldiers will be at least It’s going to be tripled!”
"We in Hanoi County now have three thousand quasi-xuan-level Taoist soldiers. Most of these three thousand people come from the families of Chinese and scholars. They have a little money at home. They have had enough to eat and drink since they were young. They have learned the art of war, archery, horse riding, swordsmanship, etc. since they were young. Hunting and extraordinary knowledge.”
"These people have a good foundation, and their foundations are pretty solid. The only difference between them and getting ahead is often just a skill or a little blood essence. Compared with the sons of doctors and ministers, they are actually not that stupid. , but they don’t have enough knowledge and don’t have so many techniques to choose from.”
"The reason why they join the selection of Xuan-level Taoist soldiers is not because they are really loyal and unspeakably loyal, but because by participating in the selection of Xuan-level Taoist soldiers, they can obtain completely accurate skills and have someone to give them to them every day. They explain the exercises and can also obtain many cultivation resources.”
"As for money, the countrymen and scholars can still come up with some money despite gritting their teeth. If it doesn't work, they can just sell some ancestral property or find ways to borrow money, and they can always get money."
"At that time, they could have purchased the development bonds of our Hanoi County and finally obtained the skills. After having the skills, why would they let their best sons participate in the selection of Xuan-level Taoist soldiers and fight to the death? Why are Hanoi County working so hard? From now on, can’t we just focus on finding ways to make money?”
"If we lose these outstanding young men of scholarly and Chinese origin, of our three thousand quasi-xuan-level Taoist soldiers, we may have less than one thousand left. The selection will be much more difficult, and the training will be much more difficult."
"In my opinion, the sons of compatriots and scholars are the best sources of soldiers."
"Although the overall quality of the doctors' sons is better, there are too few of them. Moreover, they have also seen the world and are not easy to manage."
"Although there are a large number of sons of common people and savages, many of them have weak foundations and have some physical problems. If you want to make them qualified soldiers, you have to train slowly and take a long time. As for geniuses, it is true It has to be calculated separately, but there are too few geniuses.”
"Only the sons of the countrymen and scholars are the best sources of soldiers. Even though the countrymen and scholars no longer have fiefdoms in Hanoi County, they still have a guaranteed land of one thousand acres and ten thousand acres. Each mu of land yields ten stones. , and it is enough for them to ensure that their sons practice martial arts, be literate, and understand military discipline."
"They have good physical fitness, a solid foundation, and a good sense of obedience. All it takes to get them to return home is the skills, and the skills can be used repeatedly, so the cost is actually not high."
"So, in my opinion, it is not advisable to use martial arts and blood essence to pay off the debt. We are not Taiping Dao. We may not be able to do what Taiping Dao can do!"
The Tao of Taiping emphasizes Huang Tian's will and the pursuit of peace.
As long as ordinary people listen to preaching every day, they can obtain daily necessities such as rice, eggs, firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and life is not difficult.
As long as one can master the teachings of Taiping Dao proficiently and truly understand and even practice them, they can gain the recognition of Huang Tian's will, become a formal follower of Taiping Dao, and start learning characters and extraordinary knowledge. At the same time, we also need to start preaching and practice it personally.
Once you become an alchemist, even a yellow scarf warrior, you can learn further skills and extraordinary knowledge.
Once you become a warlock, you will become a Yellow Angel.
Within Taipingdao, martial arts are not uncommon. When you have the strength, Taipingdao will provide it for you.
At this time, everyone on the Taiping Road can understand how to exchange the skills for money. The promotion method in Taiping Road is different from that in Hanoi County!
No matter how strong you become, if you don't agree with the philosophy of Taiping Dao, you will not be recognized by Huang Tian's will, and you will not be considered a follower of Taiping Dao.
Thinking of this, Gongzi Si continued to look at the others, wanting to hear if they had any good ideas.
After a while, Li Kui drew a map of Chao Kingdom.
"This is Chaohe River, with our Hanoi County on one side and Taiping County on the other."
"There are still only a few counties in Taiping County today. However, when they receive 500 billion from this bond issue, they will definitely continue to develop when they have money."
"And now we have almost developed the county, the land lines have been sorted out, the demons and ghosts have been cleaned up, and the disobedient nobles have all disappeared."
"Through the political aristocracy, we actually still have a lot of money. If we really squeeze it out, we can repay the first tranche of bonds, but this will slow down the development speed."
"So, let's attack the Chao Kingdom!"
"There are still sixteen counties in Chao Kingdom today!"
"Let's rob money, food, and people."
"In order to prevent Yancheng from objecting, let's talk to Yancheng before taking action. Thirty percent of the money and food stolen will be given to Yancheng."
"We can be considered as contributing to the great cause of Yancheng's reunification."
"These sixteen counties are all in the heart of the country. They have a lot of nobles and a lot of resources and money."
"Anyway, after we finish robbing them, they will definitely be in Yanchenghua. As long as we don't take them out of Chao Country, it won't be a big problem."
"Robbing one county will last us at least ten or eight years. We need to be quick. If we can rob two counties, then we can confront Taiping County for about fifteen years."
"Fifteen years later, I will have become a real person long ago. Brother Pang Dao, your Xuan-level Taoist weapon should also be trained, right?"
"That's for sure!"
"At that time, even if we directly bring the people and the army back to the Wei family, it won't be a loss, right?"
Young Master Si nodded without thinking: "How could it be a loss? It's not a loss at all!"
(End of chapter)
