If it is said that Pang Tong is not shrewd, this cognition can be regarded as a somewhat frustrating conclusion reached after Wei Duan and Du several times and Pang Tong openly and secretly.

Young people nowadays......

Wei Duan and Du glanced at each other, and then handed over the final result. "Qi Qi Pang envoy, after investigation, there are 37 households who overreported their real estate, fined 16,380 mu of land confiscated according to the law, and fined 151,400 taels ......"

"Hmm......" Pang Tong took the list, looked at it slowly, and then motioned for Wei Duan and Du to sit down.

Wei Duan and Du can now guess with their toes that the so-called attic fire is a pit, and after the two of them exchanged glances with each other, they were somewhat glad that they didn't act rashly, otherwise they would have become a member of the list now.

As for the losses of the Taoist friends......

It's already merciful, okay?

Originally, at the beginning, Wei Duan and Du were also scared enough, and even thought that there would be another big purge, but they didn't expect Pang Tong to be held high, but the strength of the fall was not so great, at least they did not raid the family and exterminate the clan, although it was also a broken muscle, so that the property of these thirty-seven families shrunk by at least two-thirds, but at least the people are still alive, which is somewhat lucky.

"Well, that's it......" Pang Tong put the list on the side of the table, then stretched out his hand to ask for tea, and said casually, "Come, you two taste this tartary buckwheat tea...... This is a new tea species developed by General Zhengxi himself, and regular drinking can clear the heart and cleanse the abdomen, so that people can lose weight and keep healthy......"

"Thank you, Envoy Pang." Wei Duan and Du hurriedly picked up the tea bowl and took a few sips, which was praise.

Pang Tong laughed a few times, and then said with a smile: "The measurement and reporting of the land of Sanfu has been completed, and at that time, I will appoint a city patrol to inspect the field, so that people know the land, and the land will be returned to their ......people."

The corners of Wei Duan's eyes couldn't help twitching, and the tea soup he was holding almost didn't spill out.

Du coughed slightly, and said, "Pang Yuanjun, it would be good if you sent some scribes to inspect the city...... Most of them don't know how to write and ink, and if you miss an errand, it will inevitably be unbeautiful......"

The patrol of the city is all composed of veterans who have been disabled and discharged from the army by General Fei Qian, and they have taken the wealth and land of General Zhengxi, which is really the closest relatives of General Zhengxi, water can't be splashed, oil and salt can't be eaten, if these people are really let go down to the fields, there are still many small tricks in the details that must not be hidden, and they will be exposed.

For example, it was originally acres of fertile land, but then it was reported as acres of barren land......

For example, it should be the land of the noble clan, and then scattered under the names of some unknown clans......

For example, it was written on the paperwork that the mountain forest wasteland had actually been developed and converted into fields, and it had been cultivated for a long time......

These matters are naturally not particularly big crimes compared to the guys who have been blinded by the lard of the thirty-seven households, but the sum of the various items is also a large amount, how could Wei Duan and Du, who were born as children of the scholar clan, not understand?

The scribes are more or less talkative, eat and drink, arrange a few glamorous maidservants, and stuff some benefits as the cost of moistening the pen, and everyone can get by, it is always better than those who turn over small cloth bags at every turn and pay out the fine wooden plaque to patrol the city, right?

Pang Tong smiled and said: "The scribes need to count the autumn endowment, and they have no time to take care of it, and besides, the city inspection does not make an article, and it is also a rough count, and it is okay to do these small things, so it's ...... done."

Wei Duan was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Dare to ask Pang Yuanjun, I don't know if Jingxiang can patrol the city?" ”

Pang Tong naturally understood the meaning of Wei Duan's words, and laughed a few times, but did not directly answer Wei Duan's question, but said: "Su Su my ancestor, the country is from Wei Wei, the black clothes Zhu Fu, the four dragons." Tonggong Si Zheng, Funing is famine, the total Qi group of states, with wings of big business, stacked with Dapeng, and the achievements are only glorious...... Well, I don't know if Wei Congcao can hear this poem? ”

The corner of Wei Duan's eyes jumped again, how could he not know this poem, but this time it was not the thirty-seven households, but a large area, and even he Wei was involved, so naturally he couldn't ignore it, so he said quite toughly: "Why should Pang Yuanjun be like this, you must know that it is too much!" ”

The law does not hold the public accountable, this sentence is not an empty word.

Who made the law?

And to protect the interests of that level?

If there is no law to protect the distribution of social rights, should the propertied class or the proletariat be most worried?

Therefore, when the "masses" with the largest base start to really make a stir, the ruling class often does not blindly suppress it, but first divides and co-opts, and only for those diehards is it a stick to death.

"Wei Congcao thinks this matter is inappropriate?" Pang Tong said lazily, as simple as saying that the tea soup is thick or light, "If you accept the field house, if you sell the house, you can't accept it more." If you want to buy a house, don't allow it if you don't compare it to your house. For the officials and the eunuch emperor, you have to buy a room. The field house should be the county official, and the person who defrauded the household on behalf of the family was ordered to redeem the city and not enter the field house. Those who are not households, have a field house, attach a person's name, and are named a field house, are all ordered to be two years old on the border and not enter the county official. If you are a person named in the field, you can sue first, and in addition to its crime, you can use the name of the field, it is like a law. All of the above are also "household laws". ”

Wei Duan pondered his words for a moment and said: "Knowing the good and evil of the people, serving first, knowing the rich and poor of the people, how much they give, leveling their poor products, and the office of the village elders." Pang Envoy Jun is erudite and intelligent, he is a masterpiece in the world, and he is in the position of Jingfu, and he will not be able to ascend to the hall of Sanhuai in the future, and he will shine for thousands of years. After speaking, he also glanced at Du.

Du also arched his hand and said: "Now that Guanzhong is initially decided, and it is time for the autumn harvest, it should be tax-oriented...... Tian Xuan's matter, in a hurry, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, so you might as well ...... Wait for time, prepare more manpower, and then make a decision? ”

Pang Tong had a calm little black face, staring at Wei Duan and Du without saying a word. At first, the two of them looked at each other with Pang Tong, but after a while, the two of them lowered their eyes and avoided them, silent, I don't know if it was because they were too ugly to look at.

"For a family of five, there are no less than two servants, and those who can cultivate no more than 100 acres, and the harvest of 100 acres is not more than 100 stones. Spring ploughing, summer ploughing, autumn harvesting, winter hiding, cutting salaries, magistrates' offices, and servitude; Spring shall not shelter from wind and dust, summer shall not shelter from heat and heat, autumn shall not shelter from rain, winter shall not shelter from cold and freezing, between four o'clock, the day of death rests. Pang Tong said slowly, "If the people suffer, the dynasty will be chaotic, and if the people die, the country will be ruined." Do you think so? ”

Wei Duan was silent, and only after a long time did he give up his hand and said: "Obey the will of the people, and make up for the three, one is that the master uses enough, the second is that the people are endowed less, and the third is to persuade farmers." Pang Lingjun wants to be blessed with the people, which is a great good, but he does not see less, nor does he do agricultural work, but only prisons and hunting crimes, can he be suspected of putting the cart before the horse? If the punishment is too small, it will also lose the way of benevolence and righteousness, and damage the virtue of the west. The weak and lazy, ten thousand acres of fertile land, are also empty, and there is nothing to leave behind; Diligent generations, thrifty in housekeeping, accumulate over time, and eventually have a shade for younger generations. Is this too much? ”

Du said: "The heart of the king to love the people can be learned from heaven and earth, and we are also deeply admired." However, now that the people's hearts are not stable and they are panicked, they should calm down the Quartet, stabilize the market, encourage agriculture and mulberry, and promote commerce and trade. Why should Pang Yuanjun be in a hurry? ”

Pang Tong looked at the two, suddenly smiled, and said: "Since the two of you are willing to guarantee Xianghuai, it is not impossible to postpone it...... However, there is one thing that needs to be implemented immediately...... Come! Get the Bora! ”

In fact, at the beginning, in Pang Tong's plan, there was no intention to wipe out all the nobles of the Sanfu clan, press it, loosen it, and clean up some unlucky ghosts who jumped up, such a move was also within the acceptable range of these Sanfu Shiclan Haoyou, so Pang Tong handed over this matter to Wei Duan and Du to do, and these two people didn't feel that there was anything inappropriate.

Anyway, aren't the county guards appointed by the imperial court all over the world like this?

For the ground snake, if you can't carry a strong dragon, you will lower your head and stay up, it's not that you haven't survived before, but if the blow surface is spread out, if you want to kill it all, the dog will jump off the wall if you are in a hurry, let alone a person?

Pang Tong arrested thirty-seven households, Wei Duan and Du didn't have much to say, after all, among them, some people even reminded them, but they didn't listen, and they jumped into the pit desperately, and they were also to blame, and they couldn't complain about others, and such a fool was naturally as few as possible in the ranks of his own Sanfu clan, otherwise he wouldn't know if he was implicated that day.

But Pang Tong's next move is almost to challenge almost all the three auxiliary clans, Wei Duan and Du are also in it, of course, it is impossible to continue to support Pang Tong's measures.

Pang Tong himself is also from the scholar clan, so he doesn't understand it, so he pretended to be pretentious before, but he just expressed an attitude, so that these scholars of Sanfu know that they either cooperate obediently, or don't blame you.

The Tongbao that Pang Tong asked people to bring over is the most important economic reform that Fei Qian has recently prepared to implement.

In fact, this matter is also related to the rumors that Pang Tong, Jia Xu, and Xu Shu fabricated the general Zhengxi before. Although it is not said that it kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800 itself, it still affects the previous economic and monetary system to some extent.

In the Jiaozi that was previously implemented in Bingbei, the value system was still linked to copper coins, which means that although most people accepted Jiaozi as a general equivalent, they still converted it into the value of the old five-baht coin.

The value of modern banknotes is generally endorsed by the country's credit, and the banknotes themselves do not conform to the law of value, which is basically the cognition of all later generations, but in the Han Dynasty, the price of paper was very high, so when Feiqian implemented Jiaozi, everyone did not have too many opinions. On a small scale, under the control of Fei Qian, and by the personal reputation of General Zhengxi, some of the problems of Jiaozi are not big, anyway, the copper money system collapsed, the five-baht coin depreciated a lot, and there was no suitable substitute, and the expensive and complicated paper temporarily served as the general equivalent in the northern area.

Just like many times after the collapse of the copper coin system, the folk barter, but Fei Qian provides a more convenient alternative, but after Fei Qian used the Jiaozi system to get through the initial most difficult, but also the largest amount of plundering wealth stage, Fei Qian found himself suddenly faced a very embarrassing problem, there are certain difficulties in continuing to promote Jiaozi, after all, Jiaozi has problems in both the degree of acceptance and the process of storage and use, and such a problem will increase with the increase of jurisdictional distance. It will cause more inconvenience and even affect the order of the entire economy.

The ancient Chinese numismatic system is based on the copper standard as the exchange value, and it is a coin system with strict regulations and norms, otherwise, the copper standard will not become the core of the oriental monetary system, and the influence will radiate to the surrounding countries and stretch for thousands of years.

Now the Jiaozi manufactured by Feiqian, basically because of the strong technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, because the cost of imitation is too high, it is not too worth doing, so the imitation has not yet appeared, but this means that there must be no in the future? Is it safe and convenient?

A very significant problem, Jiaozi so many years of use in the process, there must be daily wear and tear, just like the paper money of later generations, Fei Qian is equivalent to be responsible for the recycling of these close to the abandoned Jiaozi, in the Han Dynasty responsible for the exchange of silver shops are not like the ATM everywhere in the big cities of later generations, but some like remote and poor rural areas, thirty or forty miles may not be available, the number of seriously insufficient silver shops, will also limit the promotion of the entire Jiaozi.

The second aspect, even in Pingyang, sometimes accidentally mixed in some fake jiaozi, not imitations, but for example, when five, the result is difficult to identify because of the defacement, not to say that it is ten, or even fifty......

These mildew, defective, dirty, if all are not returned, Jiaozi's reputation will also decay, so it can only be said that replacement, but continue to do so, it will inevitably bring more problems, not that there is no way to solve, such as the introduction of the marking system, etc., but this will increase the complexity of the whole a lot, not entirely in technology, but also in personnel, the requirements are higher, and it will inevitably feel that there will be some gains outweigh the losses.

And what dealt the final blow to this Jiaozi monetary system was the rumors of Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and Jia Xu.

If you think about it, you know that when the legend of General Zhengxi dies, what will the person who still has Jiaozi on hand do?

Therefore, after Feiqian returned to Pingyang, after many thoughts, he was ready to gradually raise Jiaozi and evolve into a large-value bill, and implement the evolution of the original copper standard in China to the gold standard.

Strictly speaking, Huaxia is not a complete copper standard, but a gold and copper standard, but whether it is a gold and copper standard, or a gold and silver standard, in fact, it is very unstable, it is better to directly implement the gold standard in one breath, and promote gold to legal tender, and the rest of the metals are all auxiliary currencies, so that in addition to helping to standardize the original copper money system that has been completely damaged to restore its original value, it can also better trade with the outside world and promote the circulation of commodities.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Qin half tael coin weighing 12 baht was used, but due to the shortage of copper, the copper coin was seriously scarce, so the minted half tael coin actually weighed only eight baht. Later, the weight was gradually reduced, and the four-and-a-half-tael and three-baht coins were minted; There is also the phenomenon of melting 12 baht coins and making them into 3 baht half taels as 12 baht heavy coins. Such a chaotic corruption of the large but insufficient coin system directly led to the rampant theft and private minting of coins among the people.

Dong Zhuo's previous corruption of the five-baht coin in Guanzhong was the same as this matter, in order to make up for the shortfall, at that time even the five-baht coin was minted into a baht, which was called "corn-eye money" by the people, the weight was reduced, the quality was reduced, but it still had to be used as the original value, who would accept this? Five-baht coins were recovered in large quantities, and private minting became even less valuable counterfeit money. It can even be broken if you break it hard, so the copper coin system will completely collapse, and it will give Fei Qianjiaozi room for existence.

But a thing has its own laws of development, and Jiaozi is no exception. On the one hand, Feiqian wants large-scale education, so it is natural to roll out the production of paper, and to prevent the Jiaozi made of paper from being imitated, resulting in the collapse of the economic structure, so it has become a helpless choice to return to the heavy metal monetary system that adapts to the production conditions. Although Fei Qian also knew that paper money was the most profitable, but now the conditions were indeed insufficient, so it was decided to re-standardize the monetary value system before Jiaozi completely collapsed, and standardize the gold standard currency system with weight and quality as the standard, that is, to specify the quality standards of gold, silver and copper......

"This is gold, platinum, red gold Tongbao," Pang Tong threw the newly minted coin on the table, and then said to Wei Duan and Du, "I have to take the opportunity of this autumn and autumn to make this Tongbao known to the land of Sanfu for five baht." ”