Chapter 1305 If the Time Is Right for Me
The news that the five masters failed to assassinate the demon soon spread. Even though the Taoists in the world knew that the demon that came to the world must be cruel, they never expected it to be so cruel.
In the palace, when Liu Guangzheng learned the news, more than a month had passed. He was not surprised to hear the news.
Those human immortals were blinded by a leaf and could not see the big mountain. Every immortal has a solid self-awareness, which is naturally a good thing, but sometimes, too firm a cognition is equivalent to solidified thinking.
Those human immortals all used their "common sense" to look at the matter of the demon coming to the world, so they died.
As a modern person, Liu Guangzheng's thinking is undoubtedly not bound by many "common sense" of this world.
As early as the night when the imperial edict was written, they knew that these people would be in danger, and they also knew that they could not persuade them to use their human immortal magic power to help them burn furnaces and engage in industry.
How could the immortals who roamed freely between heaven and earth be driven by the emperor? !
Indeed, some unsuccessful Taoists would choose to be dogs for the court, but more, even if there are now tasks assigned by the gods and Buddhas in the upper realm, those Taoists cannot respect the imperial power, and it is impossible for them to do whatever Liu Guangzheng asks them to do, even if Liu Guangzheng's choice is right.
"The hearts of the world can never be unified. Before crossing, I heard that the first emperor had the same car and the same document, and I just took it for granted, but after crossing, I saw that the hearts of all living beings are different. It takes a lot of effort to make a small palace and a divine capital orderly and enforce orders, let alone affecting the whole world..."
"There are thousands of kinds of people, and there are always those who refuse to be educated. They can't be killed or eliminated, and they are no different from rebels, but unfortunately, I have to rely on these rebels now..."
Liu Guangzheng thought in his heart, but in reality, he didn't make a sound.
If he spoke out, it might leave traces. Even if the Taoists knew the emperor's thoughts, as long as they didn't expose it, it would be the same as not knowing. They all knew it tacitly.
Once it was exposed, it would be used by someone with ulterior motives, and it would be very troublesome in the future.
Although he had consolidated his foundation a little in the past few years, he was still walking on thin ice.
If he spoke inappropriately now, if the court failed in the subsequent operation to eliminate the Zhao thieves, someone might want to use this as an excuse to say that he had sinned against the heaven and wanted to depose the emperor.
Many things, as long as they were not exposed and weighed, were as light as a feather. Once they were weighed, they would be unstoppable.
"And the army, too. I want to train a new army, but the treasury is empty. Although the previous emperor saved some money by selling officials, this little money is enough to repair the palace, but it is not enough to build an army."
"I have the knowledge of my previous life, I can burn glass and make soap, but in this era, the nobles and the court exploit the ordinary people, even difficult to eat, let alone spend money to buy these things, can only sell to the powerful."
"And this is just a small profit."
"If you want to make a fortune, you have to sell arms. When the quality and output of firearms are improved, sell them directly to local tyrants. Everyone has a gun, which means no one has a gun."
"And the capital is far away from the southern wilderness. Those tyrants will certainly spend money to buy weapons from the court in order to protect themselves..."
"I sell weapons to them, which can not only consume the power of the Zhao thieves, but also increase the power of the court, and at the same time weaken the tyrants, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone."
"Remember before crossing , there was a most powerful country at that time, which liked to do this kind of thing, which not only weakened the opponent, but also gained a huge amount of wealth. This can be regarded as a real conspiracy. "
"It's a pity that there is no room for paper money in this era, and people all over the world do not recognize this. Otherwise, I can directly print money and plunder everyone's wealth through inflation. In this way, I can not only get rich, but also don't have to bear any infamy..."
"In this era, the court mainly relies on taxes to collect money, so it is full of complaints. If it relies on inflation, it can not only reduce many unnecessary taxes, but also reduce the possibility of second, third, and fourth exploitation by people below. More importantly, it will force those powerful people with a lot of wealth to invest their money into industry, so as to reduce the evaporation rate of wealth and promote the development of the country. "
Liu Guangzheng's mind was full of thoughts. These thoughts were not the first time he thought of them, but they appeared many times.
He knew that as a modern man, his greatest advantage was not his intellectual advantage. In terms of playing tricks and conspiring, he could not play with the monsters of this era.
His advantage is the more advanced system that is ahead of this era.
Of course, there is no perfect system in the world. Just like the money printing he is thinking about above, generally speaking, it must be anchored by physical assets, and it cannot be printed casually.
In the past, it was the gold standard, and the currency was equivalent to gold. How much money was printed depends on how much gold there was.
Later, it continued to develop and improve, and finally became a national credit endorsement.
But the so-called national credit, in essence, is still a physical asset.
For example, mines, land, cities, population...
In this case, the currency has a tolerance value. If you have 10,000 points of assets, you print 15,000 and slowly circulate them. In this case, there will not be too many problems.
Because as time goes by, the people on the land are also constantly producing and creating wealth. The extra 5,000 points are a part of the wealth created by everyone in the next few years, which is plundered silently.
But if there are 10,000 points, and 100,000 are printed at once, the whole system will collapse directly. It will definitely happen that you can buy a cow with 10,000 yuan in the morning, a chicken at noon, and a box of matches in the afternoon.
And as long as the printing is not too exaggerated, it is almost proportional to plunder wealth from the whole world.
In this case, the court will lack everything, but it is unlikely to lack money.
Liu Guangzheng had the idea of printing money before his rebirth, and he had a stronger idea after his rebirth.
Originally, according to his estimation, after more than ten or twenty years, such a long time would be enough for him to clean up the court, eliminate foreign relatives, and weaken the powerful. By then, he should be in his thirties and less than forty, which can be said to be in the prime of life.
Then, there was a great currency revolution. Paper money was used to take back all the currencies in the world and use it as an anchor. It started with the gold and silver standard, and then took 20 years to slowly transition to binding the currency to physical assets.
Until the end, it took another 20 years to bind the national credit.
By that time, he should be 80 years old, and he was about to be buried. As a person who saved the world in his later years and opened a new era, it was not an exaggeration to be a ten-perfect old man with ten-perfect martial arts.
It's a pity that the wish is beautiful, but the reality is more difficult. He only has a little superpower to see people's hearts, and the other side is directly a demon.
That's fine. As a righteous party, he has all kinds of masters to help him, and he is not completely unable to fight, but these masters have their own ideas and have to send...
"If the time is on my side..."
After a long time, Liu Guangzheng finally made a sound. He ended his thinking and sighed leisurely.
He knew that what he seemed to lack most now was money, but in reality, what he really lacked was time.