Chapter 400 Coins
If the eleventh year of the Great Cause to the thirteenth year of the Great Cause was a period of time when Li Yuan began to start his business, then the fourteenth year of the Great Cause was the time when Li Po laid the foundation.
In this year, Li Po quickly rose to prominence in the northern part of the Jin Dynasty, and in just over a year, he used several crucial wars to firmly nail his name to the wall of history.
He is different from Li Yuan, Li Yuan belongs to the accumulation of thick and thin hair, and has been operating silently for many years, before he took advantage of the momentum and rose to the clouds with the wind, most of the time he only brushed his face and name, and everyone could join him.
On the other hand, Li Po is purely played, and has a lot in common with Dou Jiande and others, starting from the end of the slightest, with a weak foundation, and a bit of a taste of its prosperity and death.
Moreover, the northern part of Jindi has experienced many wars, and it is indeed not a good place.
Of course, he was different from the reckless peasant rebels.
And these don't need to come one by one, because in the winter of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, some changes quietly took place in the two states, so that the warlords of Northern Jin represented by Li Po and some separatist forces in the world were separated.
Although the revision of military and political laws and decrees, the rank of officials, the establishment of the government and so on, these things were done in a bit hastily, but they did not show much effect.
There are not many things that can be used and make people's eyes shine, and some princes have done this when they were emperors, but they are different from most of them.
Because as time went by, the meaning of rewarding meritorious people became weaker and weaker under Li Po's rule, and there was no indiscriminate issuance of officials, no large-scale conscription, no construction of palaces, and no intention of eradicating the Jindi gate valve.
The people in this gradually forming political and military group did not compare themselves with each other like the nouveau riche, Chad, and fought desperately for the title and power.
These are all very fatal problems that the rebel army will inevitably face when it swells to a certain stage.
But the two states have quietly passed this stage.
Li Po's resignation to several Taishou, Chen Xiaoyi, Yu Wenxin, Su Yan, Wang Lu, all from the gate valve, after entering Jinyang, and appeased the Jinyang Wang family and other Jinyang clans, so that he was already with some gate valve halo more likely to get the support and acceptance of the wealthy family.
In the army, after the establishment of the Left and Right Guards, Wei Chi Gong and Bu Qun, who took office, were also the two most senior people in the army, so that the generals in the army had nothing to say.
In fact, all the problems can be boiled down to the problems of system and employment.
When the system lacks guarantees, the problem of how to properly employ people is also highlighted.
Once some people gain power, they will wantonly install cronies, especially brothers and nephews and other people who are involved in blood, no matter what their talents, they must occupy important positions, in addition to showing the honor of their own family, but also to guard against others.
The so-called one day attains the Tao, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven.
In general, Li Po's employment is remarkable.
He relied on Chen Xiaoyi, because Chen Xiaoyi helped him a lot in the process of unifying the three counties of Daizhou, and he had talent and prestige, so since Chen Xiaoyi came to his side, he was very trusting of his people, which obviously made many people in the three counties of Daizhou relieved.
Su Yan's time to go to Yunnei is too short, and he is young, but he can use it to worry about Lou Taishou, in addition to the lack of people around him, it also shows his measure.
Not to mention the other two, Wang Lu is mediocre and has some grievances with Li Po, but now he is staying in the position of Ma Yi Taishou, and his position is very stable.
Yu Wenxin and Li Tang surrendered to generals, but Li Po did not hesitate to let him take over the post of Yanmen Taishou.
Wen Yanbo was a descendant from Youzhou, but now he is the most powerful one in Li Po's shogunate.
It can be seen from the appointment of these people that Li Po has his own persistence in employing people.
The literati govern the government, and the military governs the army, and the thinking is very clear.
He didn't let the generals do the guards, and he didn't let Chen Xiaoyi and others lead the troops.
This is very rare in the world, because since the war at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the concept of military and political integration has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Like the Tang Army in the south, it was Taichang Shaoqing Li Zhongwen, in the eyes of later generations, that is, the standard literati leading the troops, which is a taboo for soldiers, but now, it is normal.
Li Zhongwen is the grandson of Li Bi, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, Li Mi's uncle, and a standard seed player who will enter the phase.
And here in Li Po, the gap between civil and military has been faintly divided, and with the passage of time, this difference will become more and more obvious.
If not to mention the other benefits, this must be conducive to political stability.
It can be said that all these things have made the two states faintly glow with vitality in the cold wind of the winter of the 14th year of the Great Cause.
More importantly, things such as sorting out household registration, measuring land, and distributing acres of land have been implemented since Li Po entered the main prefecture.
This shows his determination to give the people rest, and by the autumn of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, Daizhou had already harvested an autumn harvest.
By any amount, this is a great start.
In the autumn of the 14th year of the Great Cause, the entire grain shortage in Daizhou has completely become a thing of the past under Li Po's various means.
The people who were about to flee rearranged their crops, shepherded their cattle and sheep, and the ones who were ready to make a riot also honestly took up hoes and whips for grazing.
Since the eighth year of the Great Cause, the price of grain, which has soared since the beginning of the Great Cause, has finally risen to the sky, and has fallen rapidly.
The mountain bandits and homeless people who fought in various parts of Daizhou returned to the township one after another, and Li Po used countless cattle and sheep taken back from the grassland in the clouds and the grain and grass taken back in Youzhou to stabilize the hearts of the people in Daizhou.
Compared with those systems, employing people, military discipline and other things, in fact, this is Li Poshi's real achievement.
In fact, in addition to the rapid increase in the state's population during this era, the abundance of warehouses and ranches was a bit too much.
And coins, which had always seemed to have lost much use, became expensive again this winter.
Once the price of food falls, the impact will not be a little bit, and the price of goods as a whole will fall from the top of the clouds, and in the primitive way of bartering, it will be immediately thrown aside.
The convenience of the general equivalent of copper coins is also immediately apparent.
In fact, at this time, once the copper coins began to circulate on a large scale, it would symbolize the economic recovery of a place in the land of the Great Sui.
Mayi, tents are covered on both sides of the Cangshui, which are the people who are preparing to build a city on the bank of the Cangshui.
Wang Lu, the Taishou of Ma Yi, and Yuen Long, who was stationed in Yunnei, both sent letters saying that everything about the construction of the city had been prepared, and that they would wait for the construction to start next year.
Yu Wenxin of Yanmen was not idle this winter, in addition to asking the Wang family to marry, he sent a letter to Jinyang, asking Li Po to mint coins again to replace the five baht coins of Kaihuang and the white coins of Daye.
Not to mention how Yu Wenxin is a person, this is undoubtedly a talented person, and his vision is very accurate.
As the copper coins began to circulate, he was already aware of the problem.
There are not many copper coins in the treasury of Yanmen, and the war has also caused a large loss of coins in the Yanmen Territory, especially the white money of the great cause, which is very seriously corroded and very brittle after not using it for a long time, and it is very brittle, and it is used more, the money surface is getting thinner and thinner, and the handwriting on it is quickly blurred, so people are not very willing to use it.
And next year, there will be more and more places in Yanmen to use money, and if it is replaced by grain, cattle and sheep, it will be very cost-effective for the current Yanmen government.
According to Yu Wenxin's words, it is to re-mint coins, which is already a top priority.
Of course, this is also because only Yanmen has the largest population in the three counties of Daizhou, and once the coins began to circulate, the Yanmen government immediately noticed that something was wrong.
Of course, this is also one of the messes left by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and the white coins he issued are shoddy products compared to the five baht coins of Kaihuang.
After a few years of use, people have resisted this coin, and many merchants are reluctant to charge this white money, which looks shiny but is not easy to preserve.
Well, this matter is not a trivial matter, Li Po is also a little blind, minting money?
It seems that someone mentioned it before, and he can't remember clearly, but in such a big place as the two states, it is necessary to privately mint copper coins, is it useful?
He roughly discussed it with a few henchmen, and finally understood that most of the people around him were money spenders, and it was difficult for them to ask them to put forward some constructive opinions on this matter.
Fortunately, there is really such a talent under Li Po's rule, the Kansai Su family, who has been in charge of the affairs of the branch for generations.
Su Wei, the grandfather of Lou Fu Taishou Su Yan, was one of the main initiators of the Kaihuang five-baht coin.
According to his family background, Su Kang's tenure as a building is too annoying, and he is not a condescending talent, but he uses it in the wrong place.
But Su Yan's age was his fatal injury, and under the lack of experience, Lin Taishou was killed by Li Po, which made him enter the building to pacify a county, and Su Jian suddenly rose to the top of the position, and he was very anxious for a while.
Now, people are too annoying in the building, and they are doing a good job.
At the age of more than 20, being in charge of the government affairs of a county is actually a very satisfying thing for Su Yan.
There are many children of the Su family, and there are countless high-ranking officials.
But if there is chaos today, the children of the Su family are scattered in all directions.
His grandfather Su Wei was coerced by Yu Wenhua to Hebei, and after Yu Wenhua was defeated, he went to vote for Li Mi.
Most of his brothers and elders are working for the Li family, and there are few who have been reused, some have stayed in Jiangnan, and some have gone to Luoyang.
But so many people, when asked if there is anyone in the Su family who can become the head of a county, it is estimated that he is only Su Yan.
He didn't excel at home back then, but now he is out of the group, and it can be said that he has grasped his future single-handedly, without any help from his family.
He has been able to get to this point, what is he not satisfied with?
The so-called death of a confidant, the reluctant mind at the beginning has long been gone, and he is only dedicated to the building to worry about government affairs.
It's just that he didn't expect that more opportunities were waiting for him.
(Ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month, ahhhhh (To be continued.) )