Runzhou City, Han House!

In the study, the lights were bright, and Han Xizai and a literati in green shirts were drinking tea and exchanging things between the DPRK and China, which could be regarded as a candlestick night talk.

This man in a blue shirt, thirty-six or seventeen years old, was the leader of the Jinling Qincha envoy group in the Guofu Post House during the day, and he was all transferred to Gao Yuan.

This Gao Yuan is not only the transfer envoy of the capital, but also the outsider of the household department, and Han Xizai was the household servant before he was dismissed, and he was the boss of Gao Yuan's top boss.

In addition to the relationship between the subordinates of the household department, Gao Yuan and Han Xizai both belong to the Sun Party camp.

As the saying goes, "the Han and the Yi party declined, and the Tang and Tang dynasties were destroyed", the Han and Tang dynasties, which flourished for a while, were finally because of the struggle between the two major literati groups, which caused the court officials to fall apart and fall into decline and perish.

In the court of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the friends party also existed, and it had been fighting for many years, and the two major party forces were the Sun Party and the Song Party.

The leader of the Sun Party is Sun Sheng, a native of Mizhou in the north, studious and literate, especially good at poetry, and was Zhu Shouyin's staff in the Later Tang Dynasty.

Eight years ago, Zhou Shizong attacked Huainan, and Sun Sheng was ordered by Tang lord Li Jing to envoy to the north to Hou Zhou, but he was killed by Shizong because he refused to provide information about Jiangnan. The news was transmitted back to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Yuanzong Li Jing heard the tears, gave the Taifu, and posthumously crowned the Duke of Lu.

The rest of Sun Dang are Han Xizai, Chang Mengxi, Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenwei, Li Deming, Xu Xuan and Xu Kai brothers, Gao Gaoyuan brothers, etc. These people have one thing in common, most of them are from the north of the Central Plains, and because of the chaos in the Central Plains, they defected to Yang Wu and Li Tang.

The leader of the Song Party is Song Qiqiu, who is very knowledgeable, and has assisted Wu and the Southern Tang Dynasty for 30 years, and is a prime minister who matches the name, but this person is greedy for power and power, vain and treacherous, and only thinks about his own interests.

Later, Song Qiqiu also interfered in the dispute for the royal family's succession, supported Li Jingsui, opposed Li Jing becoming the crown prince, and was hated by Li Jing. Six years ago, Song Qiqiu led the Jianghuai anti-Zhou incident, but the result was a complete defeat, losing all the territory of Huainan, Li Jing was furious, deposed Song Qiqiu, and made him return to his hometown to die old.

The people of the Song Party include Li Zhenggu, Chen Jue, Feng Yansi, Feng Yanlu, Wei Cen, and Cha Wenhui as one party, among which the latter five people, because of traitors and misleading the country, were rated as the five ghosts of the Southern Tang Dynasty by the Southern Tang Dynasty history books, and the reputation was very bad. The characteristics of the Song Party are also obvious, all of them are Jianghuai and Jiangnan natives, representing the official power in the south.

The dispute between the two parties was entangled for more than twenty or thirty years, and after the Northern Zhou conquered Huainan, Li Jing was greatly dissatisfied with the Song Party at the end of his reign and began a round of purges. For example, the phase of Song Qiqiu was dismissed, and the officials were cut for the people; The edict gave Chen Jue and Li Zhenggu to death, and exiled the sick Cha Wenhui to Xuanzhou, which greatly weakened the Song party.

However, after Li Yu ascended the throne, he changed his ways, causing a new situation in the Jiangnan court.

Han Xizai poured a bowl of tea for Gao Yuan, and said with a smile: "Don't be restrained, you are a guest from afar, there is no official and noble wine today, we are friends who have forgotten the year." ”

Gao Yuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you, Lord Squire!" ”

Han Xizai waved his hand and said, "The old man is idle at home, but he is not a waiter." ”

Gao Yuan said respectfully: "Then the lower official will call Han Lao!" In the past few months, the official family has been obsessed with you, and has mentioned several times that they plan to restore Han Lao's official position, and even intend to let you choose the six official missions by yourself, whether it is a squire or a scholar, you can discuss it. ”

Han Xizai's eyebrows moved, and he raised his head and asked, "Our official family, do you really say that?" ”

Gao Yuan said embarrassedly: "It's not the original words, but the meaning is almost the same." Han Lao, because you were a waiter in the household department, you proposed the matter of minting iron coins, and you quarreled with Feng Yanlu's group in court. At that time, Han Lao, you didn't control your temper, you were furious in the palace, pointed at the people of the Song Party and scolded, and were impeached by the palace attendant Yushi, and the face of the official family was thinned, so he lost his official position. Afterwards, the official family regretted the dismissal of Han Lao. Even since last month, a new policy of iron money has been implemented, which is the numismatic policy mentioned by Han Lao! ”

After Han Xizai heard this, his face softened, he took a sip of tea, and then said slowly: "After the Battle of Huainan, we lost the rich Jianghuai region, and the taxes were halved, coupled with the huge consumption of the war a few years ago, the treasury was empty, and the finances were tight. ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said: "Xia Guan is a member of the Ministry of Finance in the Ministry of Households, and he is deeply touched by this. ”

Han Xizai continued: "Lord Zhong Mo Zhong previously proposed to cast a large amount of money, with one as Kaiyuan Tongbao ten, named Yongtong Quanbao; And mint a small money, to two as one, named Tang Guo Tongbao, these two kinds of new coinage due to improper planning, for several months, the flow of evil, the people steal the cast, extremely light and small, shoddy, and finally failed. However, if the money shortage is not resolved, commerce and trade in Jiangnan will be stopped, and the lives of the people will be affected. ”

So the old man proposed to cast iron money, every ten coins to iron money six copper money four mixed casting, reduce the use of copper, so after the trial, when this new Kaiyuan Tongbao iron and copper money, full circulation, can replace the previous copper money, the pure copper money used to make the year coin, the new iron copper money in the south of the Yangtze River circulation, can alleviate the copper shortage, to ensure the circulation of goods and coins. Unexpectedly, Feng Yanlu, Pan You and others actually moved out of the ancient system of Zhou Li to reprimand the old man for being cunning and not ancient, and striving for the benefit of the people, which is really ridiculous and pedantic! ”

Gao Yuanshen thought so: "That's true, they turned a blind eye to the current situation, and only said some metaphysical empty words, stubbornness, misleading the country and the people!" ”

After the indignation, Gao Yuan continued: "However, the reason why they opposed Han Lao so much last time, according to the analysis of Lord Xu and others afterwards, it is likely that this time the Jianghuai Song Party and the Jiangnan upstart forces have reached a kind of alliance, and they will take the opportunity to squeeze out our overseas Chinese people." ”

"Upstart!" After Han Xizai muttered a few words, he became silent.

The so-called upstart forces are actually after the loss of Jianghuai, Li Tang lost half of the country, and could only rely entirely on the power of Jiangnan in the future, so after Li Yu ascended the throne, he did not pay so much attention to the overseas Chinese who came from the north and the Song Party people in Jianghuai, but vigorously supported the indigenous people of Jinling and Jiangnan, such as Pan You, Li Ping, Chen Qiao, Zhu Kuangye, Zhang Xun and others.

Han Xizai was in a dull mood, sighed and said, "Don't mention this matter, let's talk about what will happen today's tribute election, Bai family...... How's it going? ”

"The Bai family? It's so good! Gao Yuan had a good impression of the Bai family, and immediately praised a few words.

Han Xizai was a little dumbfounded, wasn't the Bai family in a dilemma, suppressed by the Ding family, and on the verge of decline, how could it still be so good?

"What the hell is going on? Tell me about it. When Han Xizai heard this, he was immediately interested.