readx;?“ After the saint ascended the throne, he naturally treated the Taifu well, and the Taifu was in charge of the Shangbi factory before, and the saint continued this arrangement. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At first, of course, everyone was happy, but after a long time, there was a disagreement. Cheng Xin gently twisted his beard hanging on his chest and said.

Cheng Yanghao listened attentively, and when he saw his father pause, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Most of the gold mines in the Central Plains have been mined, and about 300,000 taels of gold have been returned to the coin. These coins were supposed to be minted and circulated in the market, but in order to accumulate gold, Taifu reduced the amount of coinage by himself, and even mixed the gold with lead, tin, and nickel when minting. ”

"After these coins were circulated in the market, the people saw that they were not in good condition and did not like to use them, so the demand for the next coins increased sharply. The Holy Lord was in charge of the country's copper mines, and in order to solve the shortage of currency during trade, he had to increase the minting of copper coins, but even this was still in short supply. ”

"In the land of Biansai, because of the shortage of currency, there is a habit of removing Mo when trading, that is, a certain amount of Wen is removed from every thousand copper coins, and the price is still calculated according to the thousand Wen. There have been many complaints from the people, and the magistrates have written many times to ask for more coins, but the copper mines in the country are limited, and if they continue to be minted endlessly, they will always run out one day. ”

"So the saint asked Taifu to release the right to go to the coin factory?" Cheng Yanghao asked his father with a puzzled face.

How can such a thing be said explicitly? This time Pingnan, the tariff is not enough, the saint is above the court, and asked the Taifu how much gold is still stored in the coinage, and the Taifu said at the time that there are only 150,000 taels, and the coinage is not enough, so the emperor did not ask again. ”

"In the end, the construction of the underground palace and the summer palace was stopped, and the military expenses of Pingnan were sufficient. However, this time, the emperor also understood the attitude of the prince, and made up his mind to seize the right to gold casting. ”

"Why should the Holy One bother so much, isn't it all settled with one edict? Could it be that Taifu still dares to rebel, and the army is in the hands of the saint? Cheng Yanghao said.

"What's the use of just having an army, you can't fight around every day, Taifu has long placed the people of the clan in charge of key official positions such as taxes, salt administration, and official appointments and dismissals, so he has the confidence to stand up to the emperor. The Holy Lord is now in Pingnan, and the Central Plains must not be in turmoil, so naturally he cannot come by force. ”

"I often wonder, how is the Holy One going to deal with this tricky matter? I didn't expect the emperor, who was born in martial arts, to think of such a clever plan.

Cheng Xin was silent for a moment, as if he was still understanding the Shengshang's countermeasures, Cheng Yanghao was already in a hurry: "Father, don't sell it, say it quickly." ”

Cheng Xin nodded slightly and said, "It has only been more than two months since the Holy Lord Pingnan this time, and he has already captured Huaiyang and Weiguo. Lu has always been friendly with Yiguo, but this time he did not form an alliance with Yiguo. Rather, it showed neutrality to our Great Qi before the war. ”

"As far as he said, his actions were in favor of the major pillar countries everywhere, and he also silently accepted the rich families and merchants who fled from the major pillar countries. It's really like saying one thing and doing another. ”

"The Holy Lord has long been dissatisfied with the Lu State in his heart, but he ordered to besiege the Lu State without attacking it, and adopted the strategy of trapping the enemy, do you know why?"

Cheng Yanghao thought for a while and said, "The saint must be because Lu Guo has expressed neutrality in his previous book. In addition, the mountains of Lu Guo are dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he does not want unnecessary casualties, so he ordered the army to besiege but not attack. ”

"So this is the genius of the Holy Lord, he gave such an order, most people will think that this is a reasonable choice, only those who know the inside story know how powerful it is."

"Huaiyang, Weiguo and Lu are the three closest countries to my Qi country, in addition to benefiting foreign countries, these countries trade with our country most frequently, in order to facilitate transactions, the merchants of these three countries have a large amount of gold in their hands."

"As soon as the saint arrived in the south, he let out the words, the terrain of Lu is the most dangerous and the most difficult to attack. When the Huaiyang rebels, the Wei Guo and our Qi army were fighting, the Holy General blocked all the borders, leaving only the road to the Lu State, and at this time, the rich people of the two countries fled to the Lu State with valuable gold and silver in order to escape the war. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Xin's tone became even lower: "The next step is the key, the saint saw that the rich people had almost escaped, so he closed the road to the country of Lu, like catching turtles in an urn, trapping these rich people in the country of Lu along with their gold." ”

Cheng Yanghao said excitedly when he heard this: "As soon as we attack the Lu country, our Qi army will rob all the gold in the city, and then the Great Qi country will be as if a gold mine has really been discovered." ”

Cheng Xin glared at his son fiercely and said, "You know it!" ”

"According to rough estimates, Lu should have 300,000 taels of gold at this time. With the strength of the Qi army, these gold in the Lu State will belong to us sooner or later. But we don't have to rob and leave a bad reputation. ”

"We only need to set up a cabinet to attract the rich people of Lu to deposit gold in our cabinet with an interest rate higher than the market, so that we can pocket the 300,000 taels of gold without a single knife or shot, isn't it very powerful!"

"These 300,000 taels of saints will never be sent back to Luoyang, and I estimate that most of them will stay in the Huaiyang Metropolitan Protectorate. In this way, who do you see are most anxious? ”

Cheng Yanghao said: "That must be Taifu's most anxious, the 300,000 taels of gold that he originally controlled in Qi Country have now become half in charge, and it has doubled out of thin air, so the value of the gold in his hand will fall by half." ”

"Exactly." Cheng Xin said: "The reason why the saint kept the country of Lu was actually to give the Taifu and the rich time to sell the gold, and most of the rumors about gold mines were also released by the saint, wanting them to redeem the gold in their hands quickly to solve the shortage of loans." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Yanghao still didn't know anything, and he asked: "Father, if someone in Luoyang City converts a large amount of gold and turns it into copper coins, won't there be an even greater shortage of copper coins?" ”

Cheng Xin listened, glanced at him and said: "I usually let you read more, but you are always lazy." Do you know the so-called "one trade-off"? In the past, there was a shortage of copper coins because the gold was in the hands and did not enter the market. ”

"Nowadays, a large amount of gold needs to be realized, and when there are few copper coins, gold can be freely exchanged for what you like at the price, so who has to exchange it for heavy copper coins?"

"When gold enters the market, the pattern of the listing factory dominating gold will be broken, that is, it can no longer monopolize gold, and Taifu's status in the clan will definitely decline."

"The saint quietly eliminated the Taifu's dictatorship, it's really a chess move!" Cheng Yanghao heard this, and then he asked: "Taifu is not an idle person, how can he be slaughtered?" ”

"So that's exactly what we have to do for the sake of the Holy One." Cheng Xin turned his head and said to his son with a serious face: "No matter when, we must stand with the saint, only when the saint's position is stable can I settle down and prosper, if the saint fails, the family will also be destroyed, can you remember?" ”

Cheng Yanghao was taken aback by his father's stern expression, and nodded again and again: "My son has written it down." ”