Xiangyang West Market sells daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt. On the streets of the city, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Cen Wenwen were wearing cloth clothes, followed by several guards, they were here to understand the livelihood of the people in Xiangyang, and when he entered the city that day, he asked Xiao Yu if he could go shopping by himself, for today.

Although he is Yang Dong's minister and secretary, he is very concerned about the people's livelihood, and he occasionally does things like buying goods by himself, and he is very familiar with this kind of thing.

After entering the market, the three of them frowned, Xiangyang West Market is very large, there are enough two squares, but most of the commercial houses inside are closed, giving people a very withered feeling, although it has a certain relationship with the New Year, but from many closed shops without hanging door plates, it can be seen that this is the ownerless shop, it can be seen that this should be the most lively place in Xiangyang is very deserted, 'business is not prosperous', lack of goods, and folk poverty is the first impression of the three people.

"Old man, how do you sell your fish?" Suddenly, I saw an old man squatting on the corner of the street selling fish, so he walked over and asked.

"Forty dollars a tail." The old man glanced at Fang Xuanling and stretched out three fingers.

"Old man, you're selling it so expensive!" Fang Xuanling was very surprised.

"It's not expensive at all." The old man shook his head and said, "It's thirty dollars a tail in summer, and it's really not easy to fish in this winter, and forty dollars is already very cheap." If it weren't for the fact that the weather was too cold, the old man really couldn't stand it, and he would definitely not have sold it for forty dollars. ”

"Okay! Bring me the Ten Tails. Fang Xuanling took out four Kaiyuan Tongbao, one hundred yuan, which was exactly the price of ten tails, and after he handed the money to the old man, he squatted down, ready to untie the straw rope tied to the side of the barrel.

But seeing that the old man returned the money, the old man's voice sounded in his ears: "I only accept Yanhuang Tongbao, not Kaiyuan Tongbao, and bother the guest officer to give Yanhuang Tongbao." ”

The capital of the Tang Dynasty did not accept money from the Tang Dynasty?

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Cen Wenwen were stunned, and the three of them looked at each other.

"Why don't you accept Kaiyuan Tongbao?" Fang Xuanling deliberately said dissatisfied: "Old man, how high is the copper content of Kaiyuan Tongbao, it can't even compare to the five baht money during the period of Emperor Wen of Sui, why don't you accept it?" ”

After Yang Tong promoted Yanhuang Tongbao that year, he eliminated the old money, bad money, and cloth money to the princes of all walks of life, and through the hands of the world's families, the livestock, tea, timber, cloth, silk, medicinal materials, grain, oil and salt and other items all over the country were bought empty, and the result was that the commerce of the princes from all walks of life suddenly prospered, a large number of coins circulated in the market, and prices rose day by day. The only thing that is not lacking is the old money and bad money in the Yang Guang period, the people are very rich, but they just can't buy things, and the prices of the princes from all walks of life skyrocketed, and at this time, the merchants from all walks of life finally found that the things they sold to the Sui Dynasty were too cheap, but the Sui Dynasty never appeared again.

It was only then that the Li Tang court realized that their wealth and materials were plundered by Yang Tong, which caused a shortage of goods and soaring prices in the counties near the Great Sui.

Later, Li Tang found copper ore in Bashu and got a lot of copper ingots, so he began to cast Kaiyuan Tongbao with very high copper content, and then learned from the Great Sui to exchange for five Sui baht from the hands of the people, recovering their currency disadvantage, although the Li Tang court suffered heavy losses in the exchange process, but finally calmed down the rioting people.

It's just that Fang Xuanling never expected that Kaiyuan Tongbao, which is higher than Yanhuang Tongbao and contains copper, is in Li Tang's national capital, and no one wants it.

"I'm really sorry, this Kaiyuan Tongbao is really worthless now, if I charge you these two dollars today, I'm afraid I can only buy goods for three hundred and eighty yuan tomorrow, or even less." The old man shook his head and continued: "I don't understand the difference between Kaiyuan Tongbao and Yanhuang Tongbao, but everyone else is like this, and we can't help it. You see, the people around you are using Kaiyuan Tongbao. ”

"I'll take a look!" Fang Xuanling walked to a grain store, and really saw that Xiangyang was traded with Yanhuang Tongbao, and occasionally someone traded with Kaiyuan Tongbao, but it cost ten yuan more than Yanhuang, that is to say, Kaiyuan Tongbao only has ninety percent of the value of Yanhuang Tongbao, and according to the words of the old man who sells fish, maybe it will depreciate tomorrow.

Fang Xuanling thought for a while, a pair of bright eyes became brighter, he hurriedly walked out of the grain store, took out two hangs of Yanhuang Tongbao, bought ten fish from the old man, and then walked through more than a dozen shops, and found that the value of Kaiyuan Tongbao in some stores was less than eighty percent of Yanhuang Tongbao.

After returning to the post house, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui laughed at each other, and Cen Wenwen, who couldn't understand it, had goosebumps all over his body, and couldn't help but staggered his hands and rubbed his shoulders desperately.

"Keming, what do you think?"

"There's a lot to be done!" Du Ruhui replied.

"Two Shangshu, what kind of dumb riddle are you playing?"

"Hey, hey!"

"Haha!"

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui smiled at each other.

Cen Wenwen felt chills all over his body, and unconsciously took a few steps back, away from the two guys who looked rather abnormal.

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "Before leaving Luoyang, the information I got was that the coins of the two dynasties were equal, but now the coins of the Tang Dynasty are only eighty percent, or even less. This shows that the successive visits of the noble heads of the Guanlong family made the civil and military forces and the common people completely lose confidence in the Li Tang court. The people were worried that after Li Tang's defeat, the Kaiyuan Tongbao in his hands became worthless, so they did not accept the Kaiyuan Tongbao, and the reason for the rapid decline was that someone was abandoning it in large quantities, causing panic in the whole city. ”

In order to plunder the people's power and plunder the people's materials, Yang Guang melted the Kaihuang five baht with a very high copper content again and again, making the copper content of the copper coin lower and lower; In the sixth year of the great cause, a large amount of paper-thin private money rushed into the market, causing all walks of life to collectively lose control and fall into chaos. Later, money and cloth money cut into the shape of copper coins appeared on the market, which caused prices to skyrocket, the economic system of the Great Sui collapsed, and the great turmoil of social order followed.

Cen Wenwen finally understood why Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui laughed, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect the collective visit of the Guanlong aristocratic family head to have such a great impact, and even the coins were swallowed up by my Great Sui. If this continues, Li Tang Chaoye only knows how to use Yanhuang Tongbao, and the Kaiyuan Tongbao that can't be used is melted into copper in large quantities, and the Great Sui is lost in the form of copper ingots, and then my Great Sui uses Yanhuang Tongbao to harvest all the wealth and items of Li Tang. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Fang Xuanling and said with a smile: "Back then, the Great Sui used old money to impact the territories of various princes, causing prices to skyrocket, and there was turmoil in many places! This is Fang Shangshu's handwriting, right? ”

"It's not me!" Fang Xuanling shook his head and said with a smile: "It's the method that the Holy Lord came up with. ”

"This method actually came from the hand of the Holy One?" The Cen text is a bit hard to believe.

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "This is called money war and economic war, which can make a small country become poor overnight, which can be called a means of killing people without seeing blood, which is even more terrible than conquest by force." ”

Cen Wenwen suddenly remembered the Silk Road Alliance, free trade, and gold and silver tickets, and couldn't help laughing: "Hu merchants in the Western Regions are crazy about exchanging real money, silver, and copper coins for 'treasure money' printed on paper from the bank, and it is estimated that these people will become poor in the future!" ”

Fang Xuanling smiled: "Don't say it if you see through it!" ”

"Humble duty understands!" Cen Wenwen smiled tacitly, and asked, "Fang Shangshu, isn't it a humble job to pour cold water on you, Li Yuan has suffered a big loss, will he allow Yanhuang Tongbao to pour in?" Also, Yanhuang Tongbao has finally established a good reputation and reputation, if a large number of coins are minted and put into the people, I am afraid it will also hurt the enemy by a thousand and damage to itself by eight hundred? The key is that the Great Sui is no longer the only Great Sui of Jizhou, and if new money is introduced, it will not only be troublesome and cumbersome to exchange, but it will also cause confusion if it is not done well. The neighboring countries are now in the stage of trying to use treasure money, and there is no absolute trust, and there is very little foreign wealth in the hub, and it is really far from the goal of searching for foreign wealth, once we lose our trust in others, they will not believe it again in the future. ”

"Jingren is extremely worried!" Fang Xuanling very much agreed with Cen Wenwen's statement and explained: "I mean the opposite. ”

"Do you exchange the goods for Li Tang's gold, silver and copper coins?"

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "Yanhuang Tongbao has a very high copper content, basically the same as the five baht of Kaihuang, reaching ninety percent, and the other one percent of the sundries are used to strengthen the copper coin, not that we don't use ten percent of the red copper!" ”

"And in order to redeem the disadvantage, Li Yuan cast the Kaiyuan Tongbao is ten percent copper! Look at ...... "Fang Xuanling took out a Kaiyuan Tongbao, and with a little force, it changed shape, and when he used Yanhuang Tongbao to pull it, even if he used all his strength, the shape was still the same.

After the test, Fang Xuanling said: "The copper content of Kaiyuan Tongbao is one percent higher than ours, and the value is three percent lower. Why is private money in the middle and late stages of the great cause repeatedly banned? The root cause is the wealth contained in the coin, which is so high that people do not hesitate to gamble their lives. ”

"Fang Shangshu wants to trade with the Tang Dynasty, so that my dynasty's glass products, fine wine, heroes and other extravagant things will pour into Xiangyang to earn Li Tang's gold, silver and copper coins?"

"Exactly,"

"I'm afraid Li Yuan won't agree, right?"

Fang Xuanling sneered: "Li Yuan's border ban is nothing for the various family gate valves, he doesn't agree, the family gate valve will also transport all kinds of luxury goods into Xiangyang in a steady stream, and the biggest demand is the dignitaries and nobles headed by the royal family, this Li Yuan knows very well, as long as we give Li Yuan a little benefit, he will definitely agree to trade with me in the official form of the Great Sui." ”

"Benefits?"

"That's right." Fang Xuanling nodded and continued: "What Li Yuan lacks most is food, we can use food as a stepping stone, can he not agree?" ”

Cen Wenwen was taken aback, and said with a wry smile: "Fang Shangshu, do you really dare to say that selling grain to Li Yuan is not an enemy?" ”

"Not necessarily!" At this time, Du Ruhui, who had been silent, said: "The reward and punishment system of the Tang army is not clear, the soldiers are not only afraid of Sui like a tiger, but also have resentment against the superior generals, except for a limited number of troops, often violate rules and disciplines, harass the people, and the generals are extremely arrogant, and those who take credit abound, and they are not popular with the army, how can this kind of army that is arrogant and weak fight?" How is my opponent of the Great Sui Hero? ”

"The key is that the Li Tang court has rotted to the bone marrow, and the government and the opposition have no hope for it, even if the Tang army eats belly support and plays with life's training every day, it is not the opponent of my Great Sui soldiers. Although the combat strength of the army is important, morale and will to fight are more important, what is the use of the big fat man who has a false appearance? ”

Cen Wenwen was convinced, he had always felt that he was very smart, but compared with Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, it seemed that there was a big difference, and people thought of a series of schemes from just a few fish, which was really not comparable to him.

In fact, Cen Wenwen is a little arrogant, the reason why he can't think of so much is because he has not been in the Great Sui for a long time, and he does not understand many policies of the Great Sui, especially the concept of money war and economic warfare, which is even more unheard of, and he can think of gold and silver treasure banknotes in the blink of an eye is Yang Dong's plundering of foreign wealth, which is already quite remarkable.

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "We have a lot of good grain, the selling price is much higher than ordinary grain, the people are not willing to buy it, and only the dignitaries can afford to eat it, but the yield is quite high, and the saints are almost sold at a flat price; In order to let the bitter Tang soldiers have a good meal, we specially sell these high-priced grains to Li Yuan, and I want to see how much he can buy in his inner storehouse. ”

"......" Cen was speechless.

In fact, Fang Xuanling's intention to send Xiangyang to Xiangyang was not complicated, first of all, to visit Xiangyang in the name of the Great Sui, to overwhelm the Li Tang Dynasty with momentum, so that the Li Tang civil and military officials, and the people of Xiangyang felt that the reunification of the Great Sui was the trend of the times. The Guanlong nobles, who became the core and main force of the Li Tang Dynasty, visited Fang Xuanling one after another, giving people the feeling that even the Guanlong nobles who supported Li Yuan's anti-Sui Dynasty had given up on the Li Tang Dynasty.

Secondly, it was to let Li Yuan exchange the five counties for a temporary truce, and the hidden tactics of blackmailing Li Tang and further shaking Li Tang's morale had been seen through by Liu Wenjing, Li Yuan not only did not agree to the exchange, but decided to expand the army and build a second line of defense to ensure the smooth passage into Shu, from this point of view, Fang Xuanling did not succeed. However, the Great Sui did not have much hope, and now that the first task has been completed, Li Tang's monarchs and ministers are suspicious of each other to the point of not dying, as long as the two are bloody, what the Great Sui gets is the entire territory under Li Tang's rule, and it doesn't matter if the five counties are temporarily sent to Li Tang's hands.

The third task is to strengthen the trade relations between the two sides, which is also the simplest and easiest consensus to reach, Xiao Yu on behalf of the Li Tang Dynasty and Fang Xuanling quickly reached an agreement, agreeing to open up the border counties, let the merchants of the two sides travel freely, and both sides are exempted from merchant tariffs to promote the development of commerce. In order not to overstimulate Yang Tong and really wave his army to fight, Li Yuan also allowed the Great Sui merchant fleet to enter Bashu, but the premise was that they did not carry armor and heavy weapons, and a ship could only carry ten short weapons and, ten bows, and thirty pots of arrows, and the Tang Army was responsible for the safety issues, and both sides agreed that even if a big war broke out between the two sides, it could not harm the merchants who carried out normal trade.

In return to Li Tang's sincerity, in addition to iron ingots and armaments, other materials in the Sui Dynasty will enter Li Tang through caravans, including grain, oil and salt that were previously forbidden to enter the Tang Dynasty, but the grain is heavy and the people are scarce. He was still afraid that the family would buy low and sell it to the imperial court, but he didn't know that all the Sui Dynasty planned to sell was high-priced grain, and he didn't know the consequences of the loss of gold, silver and copper.

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Just when Fang Xuanling and Xiao Yu reached an agreement, an assassination against Dugu was about to begin.

As a retired Xiangguo, Dugu actually rarely goes out, hiding deep in Dugu's mansion, even if an old friend visits, he is also turned away. But since visiting Fang Xuanling, Dugu Quan, who is idle at home, is quite active, and in the past two days, he has been visiting friends from time to time.

If you look closely, you will find that the trembling Dugu is just faltering, but he is full of silver hair, and his eyes are still as bright as before.

At this time, Dugu had just returned from the Zhao Mansion, and when he got into the carriage, he straightened his waist, and the aging aura was swept away, just to let people dilute his existence, so that he would look weak and aging when he went out or received visitors, and he was about to die.

Dugu Quan did not feel regret and shame for his decision to betray Li Yuan, the reason was the same as betraying another nephew, Yang Guang, because he felt that as the head of the Dugu family/the old family, he had to think about the future of the family. As for family affection or something, it had been forgotten as early as when he was elected as the heir to the head of the family, so when Yang Guang hurt the interests of the Dugu clan, he did not hesitate to betray Yang Guang and supported the Yuan family and Li Yuan to play the world. Today's Li Tang Dynasty is in danger, once Li Yuan is defeated by Yang Tong, the Dugu clan who betrayed the Great Sui will definitely not end well, in order to leave a glimmer of life for the family, what does it matter if he betrays the incompetent Li Yuan?

For Li Yuan's mud, he can be said to hate it to the bone, and at the same time he is also very regretful, he actually got along with Yang Tong for a long time before, and Yang Tong had no backer at that time, so that he also moved to support Yang Tong's desire to seize the throne, so that Yang Dong, Li Yuan, and Yuan Min could become a stable and stable momentum, so that the chaos would continue in balance, but he finally denied Yang Dong. Mainly because Yang Tong is too cowardly, not a person who achieves great things, if in a peaceful and prosperous era, an introverted and cowardly emperor is undoubtedly the most popular among his courtiers, but the signs of chaos in the Great Sui Dynasty have appeared, and this kind of person cannot win the world, so he gave up Yang Dong without hesitation. If he could have enveloped Yang Tong back then, the Dugu clan would have had a completely different fate.

Thinking of this, Dugu couldn't help sighing, the current Dugu clan depends on whether his desperate move to make up for the dead can impress Yang Tong.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped, and Duguquan, who was in thought, almost fell from his seat to the ground, and shouted angrily: "Why did you suddenly stop?" ”

The guard outside the car replied: "Old master, there are two dead bodies on the side of the road, and the clothes seem to be from our house." ”

Dugu looked out, and really saw two corpses on the side of the road, wearing the unique domestic servant clothes of Dugu Mansion, and said in a deep voice: "Look at it." ”

"Whoa!" The guards stepped forward to check.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, the bowstring sounded, an arrow broke through the air, the arrow glowed with a strange blue light, and before Dugu could react, the long arrow penetrated from Dugu's chest, and in Dugu's scream, two more arrows hit him.

Dugu turned over from the carriage, fell heavily and turned his back to the sky, his lips were already blue, obviously poisoned, and the pair of eyes with a thick unwilling look gradually became confused.

This calculated life, betrayed and betrayed two nephews of poison, and finally died under the calculations of others, and three poisonous arrows ruined his life of sacrificing everything for the family.

A beautiful invitation was sprinkled from the carriage to the ground, and the wind stirred up the invitation, only to see that it was written: 'The tenth day of the first month of the third year of Shengwu is the eightieth birthday of the contemptible people...... At noon, I prepare a thin wine in the cold house, and respectfully invite the grandfather to come - Dugu is invited.

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